Naomi Klein describes the \"shock doctrine\" as using the public\'s disorientati
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Naomi Klein describes the "shock doctrine" as using the public's disorientation following massive collective shocks-wars, terrorist attacks, or natural disasters, to achieve control by imposing economic shock therapy when the first two shocks do not succeed in wiping out resistance, a third shock is employed: the electrode in the prison cell or the gun on the street. Question: Evaluate the claim that America's "free market" policies have come to dominate the world through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries. Evaluate the suggestion that Venezuela's turn tc socialism was a reaction to the "exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries."Explanation / Answer
Ans a) Naomi Klien has claimed that America's free market policies have come to dominate the world, in the book " The shock doctorine"
The author tries to explain that the goverment shocks their citizen with fear in order to control the protesting nature of people against its goverment policies. She has described that collective shocks such as wars, terrorist attacks , natural disasters are a way to exlpoit the people property to the biggies - The corporates of the world.
The corporates of the world takes the benefit of natural disasters , wars and other shocking events that causes a . economic crises. Certain events in the past have explained that the goverment or the polical elites along with the corporates makes profit after these shocks.
certain events such as selling off public housing in new oreleans after a massive natural disaster, selling off the vast oil reserves to Shell and Bp after the iraq attack has created a new term known as disaster capitalism.
Therefore, the author explains that despite the free market policies the givermnets across the globe adopts the disaster capitalism approch to wipe out the losses caused by the collective shocks in the economy.
Ans b) Venezuelas turn to socialism was a reaction to the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries
Venezuela was once a largest oil reserve country. The author here explains that the venezuelas turn to socialism was a reaction to its goverments turning nature of disaster capitalism.
The disaster causes a massive loss and this loss is covered by the to goverment to patch up with the big corporate players. The places , the oil reserves which belongs to the people of venezuela are exploited as they are not given back to the people rather it was sold off to the biggies for the own benefits.
Similar case of the iraq where oil reserves were sold off to the big players after the quiet war declared by the bush on the iraq.
Therefore , Klien explains that its a rising practice across the globe where the economic benefit is taken out after the loss caused by the massive shocks such as wars, disasters, terrorist attacks etc. and she called this practice as "Disaster Capitalism".
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