The Price of Freedom

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In post-Tiananmen China, the Communist Party could only turn its country into a vast export credit zone with massacres and mass imprisonment which made ordinary Chinese workers too terrified to ask for even the most meagre rights. [...] across the planet, "some of the most infamous human rights violations of this era . . . were in fact committed with the deliberate intent of terrorising the public to prepare the ground for the introduction of free-market reforms".

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The Price of Freedom

The price of freedom The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism Naomi Klein Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 512pp, £25

How can Naomi Klein top No Logo, the most influential political polemic of the past 20 years? Her first book forensically studied the bloodstains that have splashed from the developing world's ...

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