Naomi Klein Quotes About Capitalism

• We have not done the things that are necessary to lower emissions because those things fundamentally conflict with deregulated capitalism. ... We are stuck because the actions that would give us the best chance of averting catastrophe - and would benefit the vast majority - are extremely threatening to an elite minority that has a stranglehold over our economy, our political process, and most of our major media outlets.

  Naomi Klein

  Media, Giving, Political

  "This Changes Everything". Book by Naomi Klein, 2014.

• What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon as the law catches up.

  Naomi Klein

  Moving, Law, Three

  Naomi Klein (2010). “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”, p.306, Macmillan

• It (the Chinese move to embrace capitalism in 1989) is a mirror of the corporatist state first pioneered in Chile under Pinochet: a revolving door between corporate and political elites who combine their power to eliminate workers as an organized political force. The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence.

  Naomi Klein

  Moving, Mirrors, Doors

• Nuestro problema es que la crisis climática surgió en un momento de la historia en el que las condiciones políticas y sociales eran especialmente hostiles a un problema de esta naturaleza y magnitud: el final de la década de los 80, el punto de partida de la cruzada para extender el capitalismo desregulado por todo el mundo. El cambio climático es un problema colectivo que exige una acción colectiva que la humanidad nunca ha llevado a cabo. Sin embargo, entró en la conciencia general en medio de una guerra ideológica que se libraba contra la idea misma de la esfera colectiva.

  Naomi Klein

  Nature, War, Science

  "Climate change is the fight of our lives - yet we can hardly bear to look at it" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2014.

• This same economic system, based on short-term growth and endless profits is also the reason for pretty much everything else that is lousy in our society, from private prisons to Fox News. What I'm arguing is that, in fact, what we've been told is a lie.

  Naomi Klein

  Lying, Growth, News

• Because it is such a huge crisis, because it puts us on a firm science-based deadline, it's a once-in-a-century opportunity to build a better society and address raging inequality, create huge numbers of jobs, rebuild our public infrastructure. But, we can't do it unless we break every single rule in the free-market playbook. Which is why the worst people in the world all deny climate change.

  Naomi Klein

  Jobs, Opportunity, Numbers

• If this really is true, then greed really isn't good, after all. It really isn't the way to maximize the best possible outcome. We really do need to come together and act collectively. Government isn't always the problem. It's sometimes the solution. And, so their whole intellectual scaffolding collapses. So, they'd rather deny the science.

  Naomi Klein

  Government, Greed, Intellectual

• A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies.

  Naomi Klein

  Different, Kind, Economy

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. August 12, 2008.

• That's what's happening now. The world is being held up a mirror: "All roads lead here. Do you like it?" A lot of people don't like it. A lot of people are saying, "Wait a minute, if our system can produce that, there's something wrong with this system." That opening is ours to seize. It matters how we name it: It's not called Donald Trump. It's called capitalism.

  Naomi Klein

  People, Waiting, World

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

• I do think that at this moment in late capitalism it is easier in our minds to imagine raising Florida 30 feet to escape the rising seas than it is to regulate capitalism to make it serve human beings.

  Naomi Klein

  Pensamiento, Mente, Momentos

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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