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Naomi Klein
Personal blog · naomiklein.org/articlespoliticseconomics
Naomi Klein's personal blog at naomiklein.org covers politics and economics. Since 2008, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Naomi Klein's site mainly for The Shock Doctrine and its idea that crises are used to push through political and economic change, applied to disasters, Chile, and 9/11.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /shock-doctrine3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2008-10-05
What Hacker News says?
And often a good crisis shifts more power into elite hands: http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine
Comment linking /shock-doctrine
on “John Nash Has Died”Submitted Could a unified theory of modern life really be this simple/scary? (quick vid) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI agree. The main objective of capitalism is making people consuming more and more and never only as much as one needs. To change that mindset we need to get rid of capitalism in the first place. This is also thesis of Naomi Klein book http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2018/08/capitalism-killed...
Comment linking /articles/2018/08/capitalism-killed-our-climate-momentum-not-human-nature
on “India Imposes Complete Ban on Solid Plastic Waste Imports”Submitted Greece’s People Start To Reclaim Their Economy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe Pinochet "economic miracle" is largely debunked at this point. Naomi Klein has covered this topic extensively in her book, The Shock Doctrine. Here's a relevant passage from her book: “The only thing that protected Chile from complete economic collapse in the early eighties was that Pinochet had never privatized Codelco, the state copper mine company nationalized by Allende. That one company generated 85 percent…
Comment linking /response-attacks/
on “Oil plummets 30% as OPEC deal failure sparks price war fears”Shock Doctrine is the only explanation of 9/11 the Documentary: https://youtu.be/B3B5qt6gsxY And the book by Naomi Klein https://naomiklein.org/the-shock-doctrine/
Comment linking /the-shock-doctrine/
on “Newly published 9/11 footage [video]”You can't have democracy and consumer capitalism and at the same time save the planet from climate catastrophe. It simply won't work. This is what Naomi Klein is trying to tell us.[1] At more practical level getting financing for better public transport needs providing forecast of revenues. And it does not justify investments in public transport as long as people use cars, ubers, taxis etc. And people will continue…
Comment linking /articles/2018/08/capitalism-killed-our-climate-momentum-not-human-nature
on “Emissions fall in Madrid city center thanks to new traffic restrictions”That's not a silver lining. That's textbook "Shock Doctrine" straight out of Naomi Klein's book. Run over all resistance to right wing extremist ideas when the citizens are still reeling from a disaster and are too stunned about a child being dead or their house being gone to be thinking about advancing political agendas. http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine
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on “Katrina's Silver Lining: The School Choice Revolution in New Orleans”I wouldn't read anything from this think tank.... http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2010/01/haiti-disaster-ca... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VLiqgm2ma0
Comment linking /articles/2010/01/haiti-disaster-capitalism-alert-stop-them-they-shock-again
on “2010 Index of Economic Freedom”So much for Disaster Capitalism ( http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine ) then, huh?
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on “This terrifying moment is our one chance for a new world”