Brad’s Reviews > The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism > Status Update

"The first recorded use of medical electrocution was by a Swiss doctor practising in the 1700s. Believing that mental illness was caused by the devil, he had a patient hold on to a wire that he powered with a static electricity machine; one jolt was given for each demon. The patient was then pronounced cured."

"The enormous benefit of having corporate views filtered through academic, or quasi-academic, institutions not only kept the Chicago School flush with donations but, in short order, spawned the global network of right-wing think tanks that would house and feed the counter-revolution's foot soldiers worldwide."

This was a rough start, quoting the "Black Book of Communism", claiming capitalist markets aren't inherently violent, and making the standard right-"libertarian" distinction between capitalism and "corporatism" (yet again validating the Comintern's "Social fascism" line). Ugh.

But then the account of MKUltra and that monster Donald Ewen Cameron brought me back to my anti-psych roots, so, points for that.