No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (533 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0713QXHP1 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 277 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Don't let them get away with it.. No Is Not Enough reveals, among other things, how Trump's election was not a peaceful transition but a corporate takeover, one using deliberate shock tactics to generate wave after wave of crises and force through radical policies that will destroy people, the environment, the economy and national security. This audiobook is the tool kit for shock resistance, showing all of us how we can break Trump's spell and win the world we need. A one-man megabrand, with wife and children as spin-off brands Remember when it all seemed to be getting better? Before Trump happened? Naomi Klein, internationally acclaim
This is a brilliant book, and absolutely worth reading This is a brilliant book, and absolutely worth reading. Klein has a knack for synthesizing and pushing beyond most left analysis of a particular conjuncture, and making connections that others have missed. I especially loved her demolition of the manufactured "economics versus identity politics" debate in Chapter 5, which has confused too many people who should kno. "An excellent, extremely readable and current book for our time" according to C. Shearer. This book is a coming together of the major themes in three previous books by Naomi Klein: No Logo, Shock Doctrine, and This Changes Everything. The discussion of Trump as a brand is really interesting and insightful, and harkens back to No Logo. The book also explores both Trump and Pence in relation to "shock" tactics to try and pass through undesirable policies,. What is going on and what to do about it. From the introduction: "This book’s argument, in a nutshell, is that Trump, extreme as he is, is less an aberration than a logical conclusion".and "He is also the personification of the merger of humans and corporations— a one-man megabrand, whose wife and children are spin-off brands"and finally "This is but one attempt to look at how we got to this su