Naomi Klein: Olympics Are Coming out Party for
"McCommunism"
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"Security, central planning, surveillance state is an ideal
cocoon for global capitalism"
Naomi Klein: "I
think this is an incredibly efficient, actually, a scarily
efficient way of organizing society that's actually being
celebrated here, which is a hybrid of some of the worst elements
of authoritarian communism—mass surveillance of the population,
total lack of civil liberties, lack of a free press, lack of
democratic rights, authoritarian central planning, all harnessed
not to advance the goals of social justice, even in name,
although there may be some lip service still paid to that, but
to advance the goals of global capitalism. So it is Stalinism
meets global capitalism.... There are 100,000 security officers
just on Olympic duty. And to put that into perspective, the
stadium itself, the Bird's Nest Stadium holds 90,000. So there's
90,000 spectators and 100,000 secret police keeping control of
things in Beijing. So this is an incredible operation. But when
you hear people like Lou Dobbs and other commentators talking
about the problems in China, it's always red China, communist
China, or the Chi-coms. And it's really this blast from the past
of—you know, it's almost as if the Cold War never ended."
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Posted 11/08/08
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