No Is Not Enough

Naomi Klein’s first two bestsellers are No Logo (1999) and The Shock Doctrine (2007). She wrote This Changes Evertything:Capitalism vs the Climate in 2014. Her documentary film The Take was made in 2004 in collaboration with her husband. Her latest book is No Is Not Enough. She feels the politicians are in awe of wealth, and feel that wealth can fix anything. They court the ‘Davos class’ and billionaires who are treated as Messiahs. The present US president’s sole qualification for the job was his wealth. His presidency is an extension of the Trump business brand. He brings his wealth power attitude to presidency. The merger of the Trump brand and the Trump presidency is so complete tht we fail to recognise where the one ends and the other begins. She invokes her shock docrine politics to explain this. Brutal tactics are deployed to exploit public disorientation in the wake of collective shock from a war or terror attack or a natural disaster. In the name of shock therapy, pro-corporate measures are pushed. There is a wider global phenomenon that has seen a surge of authoritarian, xenophobic, far right politics. Her tittle no is not enough presupposes active resistance to this phenomenon. However, she fails to spell out an alternative vision.

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