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The bizarro shock doctrine of Covid Libertarians
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The bizarro shock doctrine of Covid Libertarians

The right's lazy defense of neoliberalism against the shock doctrine critique is just to cynically reverse it.

Feb 23, 2022
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Naomi Klein, in her classic The Shock Doctrine, argues that “contemporary capitalism’s core tactical nostrum” can be found in comments arch neoliberal Milton Friedman layed out long ago:

…only a crisis — actual or perceived — produces real change… our basic function [is] to de…

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