The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein [$28.00]
The ideologies may change, but the implements of the shock ("elimination of the public sphere, total liberation for corporations, and skeletal social spending") don’t ever seem to change, nor does the ever-yawning gulf between the wealthy few and the poor and powerless many. Klein convincingly argues in this crushingly pessimistic but magisterial work that the future could well be a “cruel and ruthlessly divided” place where “money and race buy survival”.
