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I would like to recomend you a book from Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.
The Shock Doctrine is the unofficial history of the free market. From Chile to Russia, from South Africa to Canada the introduction of free market responds to a program of social and economic engineering that Naomi Klein identifies as “disaster capitalism.”
After a four-year investigation, Klein explores the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically, and that unfettered capitalism goes hand to hand with democracy. By contrast, Klein argues that capitalism constantly uses violence, shock, and reveals the puppet strings that move the most critical events of the past four decades.
Klein shows that capitalism constantly uses violence and terror against the individual and society. Far from being the path to freedom, takes advantage of the crisis to introduce unpopular economic shock measures, often accompanied by other forms of shock not so metaphorical: the coup of the PRRA of police, torture with electric prods or in the prison cells.
In this exciting story, Klein looks at recent world history to give voice to a single protagonist : the decimated civilian populations under the ruthless greed of the new owners of the world, the industrial conglomerate, commerce and government for those disasters, wars and insecurity of the citizen are the fuel for the “shock economy”.
Here is the official promotional video about her book.
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