{"id":1042,"date":"2007-10-03T20:36:02","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T18:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larshvidberg.dk\/blog\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2007-10-03T20:36:02","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T18:36:02","slug":"kleins-chokerende-nye-bog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/?p=1042","title":{"rendered":"Kleins chokerende (d\u00e5rlige) nye bog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Den canadiske journalist Naomi Klein<\/a> har en ny bog p\u00e5 markedet, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism<\/a>, og den ser ud til at v\u00e6re en endnu mere langt ude konspirationsteoretisk omgang, end hendes forrige hit No Logo<\/a>. Jeg l\u00e6ste “No Logo”, da bogen kom ud i 2000, og det var en af de b\u00f8ger, der satte mig i gang p\u00e5 min lange rejse til at blive tilh\u00e6nger af et uhindret frit marked og et liberalt samfund. Det var ikke fordi bogen som s\u00e5dan var d\u00e5rlig<\/em>. Den var b\u00e5de velskrevet og havde et flot grafisk layout, der virkede forf\u00f8rende. Den hang bare ikke sammen, argumenterne var forvr\u00f8vlede, og Klein virkede til at se konspirationer overalt. Hun virker til basalt set at have et problem med sammenh\u00e6ngen mellem \u00e5rsag og virkning, og at d\u00f8mme efter omtalerne af hendes nye bog, er det kun blevet v\u00e6rre.<\/p>\n

Klein har senere antydet, at angrebet p\u00e5 de globale varem\u00e6rker i “No Logo” egentlig blot var et startsted for en bredere kapitalismekritik, og nu kommer s\u00e5 n\u00e6ste skridt i kampen for … ja i kampen for hvad i grunden? Problemet med Klein og hendes slags er, at de bruger lang tid p\u00e5 at fort\u00e6lle os hvad de er imod, men ikke ret lang tid p\u00e5 at argumentere for, hvordan alternativet vil virke. Klein g\u00e5r vel n\u00e6rmest ind for en slags socialisme, men da socialismen ikke lige har den bedste track record<\/em>, er det vel p\u00e5 sin vis en meget fornuftig strategi at r\u00e6kke tunge af alt det, man ikke kan lide, i stedet for at melde klart ud.<\/p>\n

Kleins nye bog virker om muligt endnu mere langt ude p\u00e5 overdrevet end “No Logo”. Tesen er kort fortalt, at verden domineres af kapitalistiske manipulatorer, der bruger alle midler for at tr\u00e6kke den onde kapitalisme ned over hovederne p\u00e5 os stakkels alimindelige mennesker, der per instinkt naturligvis hader frie markeder. For Naomi Klein var Pinochets kup i Chile planlagt og st\u00f8ttet af Milton Friedman<\/a>, der citeres for at have opfordret til uro og katastrofer, fordi kun katastrofer f\u00e5r folk til at hoppe med p\u00e5 frimarkedsvognen. Og siden da har disse kapitalistiske bl\u00e6ksprutter styret verden ind i den ene katastrofe efter den anden for at gennemf\u00f8re kapitalisme gennem tortur og umenneskelighed.<\/p>\n

Tesen er naturligvis helt til rotterne, og den f\u00e5r f\u00f8lgende skud fra boven i \u00f8konomen Tyler Cowens anmeldelse i New York Sun<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Rarely are the simplest facts, many of which complicate Ms. Klein’s presentation, given their proper due. First, the reach of government has been growing in virtually every developed nation in the world, including in America, and it hardly seems that a far-reaching free market conspiracy controls much of anything in the wealthy nations. Second, Friedman and most other free market economists have consistently called for limits on state power, including the power to torture. Third, the reach of government has been shrinking in India and China, to the indisputable benefit of billions. Fourth, it is the New Deal \u2014 the greatest restriction on capitalism in 20th century America and presumably beloved by Ms. Klein \u2014 that was imposed in a time of crisis. Fifth, many of the crises of the 20th century resulted from anti-capitalistic policies, rather than from capitalism: China was falling apart because of the murderous and tyrannical policies of Chairman Mao, which then led to bottom-up demands for capitalistic reforms; New Zealand and Chile abandoned socialistic policies for freer markets because the former weren’t working well and induced economic crises.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Diskussion her<\/a>. Jeg tror dog selv, at jeg springer bogen over.<\/p>\n

Update: Her er en meget negativ omtale<\/a> fra \u00e9n, der i \u00f8vrigt er kapitalismekritisk. Og her er The Economists klassiske afklapsning: Naomi Klein needs to grow up<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Den canadiske journalist Naomi Klein har en ny bog p\u00e5 markedet, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, og den ser ud til at v\u00e6re en endnu mere langt ude konspirationsteoretisk omgang, end hendes forrige hit No Logo. Jeg l\u00e6ste “No Logo”, da bogen kom ud i 2000, og det var en af de … L\u00e6s mere Kleins chokerende (d\u00e5rlige) nye bog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25],"tags":[72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}