Comments on: Naomi Klein’s “New New Left”- The Second Time is Farce

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:38:35 +0000

Read the first couple of Chapters of her book “The Shock Doctrine” at Borders. I was glad I hadn’t bought it as it was pure BullSchumer. Not much more than lies & misstatements represented as fact. No one the NYT’s crowd fell for it. She could only have published this book after Milton Friedman died, as he would have destroyed her “arguements” in seconds. She fails to understand the basics: Free Markets = Liberty; Socialism = Slavery. It doesn’t get much simpler than that.

By: dan

dan — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:34:54 +0000

i’m always grateful for the fine BS-detectors liek those of Mr. Radosh and of other converts from the Left or New Left to what is referred to as conservatism but is simply in fact non-marsxism-leninism – by god they are good at doing that – but Naomi Klein always seemed to me to be something like the E! Channel version of the more venerated Chomsky et al.

one thing: it is discouraging that the red diaper parents should have exerted such total influence over their children. “give me a child of 8 and i shall make him a life-long bolshevik,” said lenin.

we are deeply in danger. the america we now know will not at all be the America our grandchildren live in. look at England! poor, poor Anglosphere.

By: Anthony Esson

Anthony Esson — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:27:21 +0000

What a load of poisoned nonsense.

By: fred

fred — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:06:26 +0000

Hey, Anti-Isreal: Don’t be a DouChe. Socialism has never worked anywhere. Capitalism works because if people aren’t required to fend for themselves, they wind up not doing crap. This was figured out at Plymouth Rock, by the way.

By: Steve Skubinna

Steve Skubinna — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:47:54 +0000

Never forget that beneath the innocently earnest passion for fairness and equality displayed by creatures like Klein lies an implacable evil, which leads inexorably to concentration camps and mass graves. These are the sorts of people who profess love for humanity and somehow find it needful to slaughter it by the millions.

By: Jabba the Tutt

Jabba the Tutt — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:48:52 +0000

Just to add to David Thompson’s comments on this point: “…he is a bona fide left liberal-agrees that there are major problems in America like income inequalities that need to be addressed.”

The really is that there would be no end to “addressing inequalities”. I live in rural Michigan, how do I become equal to someone living in Manhattan and vice versa? I like football, how is that equalized to someone, who likes art galleries?

“Addressing inequalities” allows to the leftist to continuing demonize freedom and unlimited interference into the lives of everyone, otherwise how do you “address inequality”.

So, bottom line, who’s a bigger nutcase of distopian nonsense: Naomi Klein or Jonathan Chait? I call it a tie. They’ve both maxed out the nutball meter.

By: Anti-Israel

Anti-Israel — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:28:14 +0000

This is the mentality of Republican Party voters and many americans out there loyal to this FASCIST CAPITALIST SYSTEM:

AND READ HOW MANY US CITIZENS THINK, AND WHY USA IS FUCKED UP, BECAUSE AMERICANS LOVE ROCKEFELLER A LOT MORE THAN CHE GUEVARA:

THERE ARE RIGHT-WING HOMELESS PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY !!

“There are no income equalities that need to be addressed. We should care less that someone like Bill Gates has far more money than the rest of us. This may shock you—but economic improvement of the masses is all about “trickle down” economics. The Gates of the world make the pie bigger for everyone. Who cares that he can afford the best of everything? The hoi polloi live vastly better because of the wealth he created.”

By: Harry

Harry — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:18:29 +0000

What’s with all the extremist rhetoric? It’s unproductive. Capitalist excesses can be tempered far short of communism/socialism . . . . legislation enforced for the general welfare might do the trick . . . . tobacco, seat belts,
what-have-you . . . .

By: Cristina

Cristina — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:52:56 +0000

# 2 David Thomson:

Absolutely. I, for one, don’t look askance at Gates’ wealth. I don’t give it a moment’s thought because of the immense social value of Gates’ work. On the other hand,I do resent Oprah’s wealth because it’s built on the dumbing down of our culture. However, I wouldn’t do a thing to level her earnings. As a believer in free markets and in people’s free choices, even to obnubilate themeslves with trash culture, as long as there’s a market for Oprah’s “product,” I say: So be it. My cultural/ideological preferences and class animosities should not translate into impositions on the outcome of market forces. It’s been tried before, with tragic results. It’s impossible for me to understand how people like Naomi Klein can ignore the hell that communists brought about to peoples everywhere they ruled, all in the name of “social justice” and equality of outcome.

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 17:02:48 +0000

I’m not exactly surprised that Ms. Klein is not living down among the proletariat. I would guess that in her home she has an elaborate stereo system, various sorts of kitchen gadgets, central heating, and any number of other things that are produced by someone other than artsy crafts groups.