Naomi Klein: “Corporations are built to be opportunistic. That’s their mission. If there’s an opportunity, they must take advantage of it, and it’s in the interests of their shareholders, and they shouldn’t be sentimental about it. So that’s what capitalism is supposed to do: take advantage of opportunities. What I’m talking about, and what I mean by disaster capitalism, is a political strategy.”
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by Naomi Klein, The Real News Network
August 18, 2008
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, and No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies. Klein is a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics and holds an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of King's College, Nova Scotia. For more information on The Shock Doctrine visit http://www.naomiklein.org/main
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