tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post4042391270192967377..comments2024-02-20T14:00:41.771-05:00Comments on A Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: Review: The Shock DoctrineUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-53642436920198420732008-12-29T18:00:00.000-05:002008-12-29T18:00:00.000-05:00Hi Jan, and thanks!Hey RT...hmmmm, I hope that hav...Hi Jan, and thanks!<BR/><BR/>Hey RT...hmmmm, I hope that having a "niche" doesn't make me too predictable! :) Anyway, you may be right about Klein, although to be fair it may also have to do with the fact that she kind of rooted her earlier work in a particular vibrant movement which no longer really exists in North America. Without that gruonding, she had nowhere outside the mainstream that was Scott Neighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17415106335668233754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-54579674668489818482008-12-28T19:46:00.000-05:002008-12-28T19:46:00.000-05:00scott! this is definitely your analytical niche: ...scott! this is definitely your analytical niche: responsibly ripping apart the reformist left. i haven't read the book yet, but i suspect klein (or perhaps her publisher, agent... all of the above) is pulling an NDP by marketing more to the centre.the red toquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10775065354974371079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-87712351765817431432008-12-27T19:39:00.000-05:002008-12-27T19:39:00.000-05:00excellent analysis. I have noted too that socialis...excellent analysis. I have noted too that socialistic countries have no problem with colonial ways of being - getting resources from other states, and often by force (benevolent or not). Exploitation is exploitation.susansmithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02573558646874765432noreply@blogger.com