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10. Oh yeah in regards to the "Shock Doctrine", I look at that as a POLITICAL strategy........

Tue May 21, 2013, 08:00 AM

May 2013

which uses economic, natural, and man made disaster situations to implement various neo-liberal economic tactics to increase profitability for the private sector. Of course since labor costs are the biggest impediment to profitability under capitalism, then these tactics and this strategy's main goal is to hamstring the working class from organizing for a bigger piece of the fruits of the surplus value created by their toil.

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It was long libodem May 2013 #1

Thanks for taking the time libodem...... socialist_n_TN May 2013 #2

Thsnks for posting it libodem May 2013 #3

Very good read Teamster Jeff May 2013 #4

Thanks Jeff. That's what I was going for..... socialist_n_TN May 2013 #5

good. limpyhobbler May 2013 #6

Thanks limp. And I totally agree that ....... socialist_n_TN May 2013 #7

no prob. these are fun to read. limpyhobbler May 2013 #8

Overall profits are high, BUT....... socialist_n_TN May 2013 #9

Oh yeah in regards to the "Shock Doctrine", I look at that as a POLITICAL strategy........ socialist_n_TN May 2013 #10

interesting, limpyhobbler May 2013 #11