Libertarian Anarchy

Naomi Klein’s joke of a book, The Shock Doctrine, represents the typical drivel that is modern state-socialism. It is chock full of logical fallacies, with straw man arguments on almost every page. You will almost never find a term that is defined, leading to compounding errors. And when she does actually stop using ad hominem attacks and address the issues, we find her advocacy of socialism is nothing more than unsupported assertions. She does not bother to prove that a minimum wage is good or that price controls work; she just assumes they are better than the free market.

Her entire book can be easily annihilated by exposing the errors in her thesis on page twenty-two: to challenge the idea “that the triumph of deregulated capitalism has been born of freedom, that unfettered markets go hand in hand with democracy. Instead, I will show that this fundamentalist form of capitalism has consistently been midwifed by the most brutal forms of coercion inflicted on the collective body politic as well as on countless individual bodies. The history of the contemporary free market – better understood as the rise of corporatism – was written in shocks.”

Now, any person even somewhat familiar with libertarianism will think this is written as a joke. However, pathetic as it is, Klein is being serious. She really believes this. Keep reading...