The Shock Doctrine
(1) the strategy by the world’s economic elites of imposing an extremely neoliberal economic regime on communities they control, using some form of shock: a natural disaster, a coup d’etat, a war, a financial crisis, etc. once the community has been crippled by this first shock, the economic “reforms” are imposed suddenly, creating a secondary blow. then, as the community begins to recover and fight back, the authorities use torture and police brutality to (literally) shock the community a third time.
(2) t-tle of a book by naomi klein describing def. 1
(please see disaster capitalism.)
ms. klein’s 2007 book described the rise of disaster capitalism in mostly poor countries: chile (after 1973), argentina (after 1989), poland (after 1993), and sri lanka (after 2004). but in 2009, the super rich were able to inflict the shock doctrine on the richest countries of the world, including germany, france, and italy.
the 2008 financial crisis was entirely a product of the richest 1% of the human race; but soon after, national governments scrambled to punish the remaining 99% for the crisis instead, by slashing public services and imposing austerity programs.
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