[Marxism] On Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine"

[Sean Andrews]

On 9/24/07, Dbachmozart at aol.com <Dbachmozart at aol.com> wrote:
>
> _http://counterpunch.org/cockburn09222007.html_
> (http://counterpunch.org/cockburn09222007.html)

from the article, Cockburn says:

<BLOCK QUOTE>
It's true that you can make a case that this all goes back to
Friedman. David Harvey's book, A History of Neoliberalism, actually
traces the origins of neoliberalism to Friedman in Chile. It's an
interesting perspective. But, as the left economist Robert Pollin
remarks, to blame Friedman for the whole thing, and not how the entire
economics mainstream went along--including the "liberals" like Sachs,
Krugman, and Summers--is to let these people off the hook and to
misrepresent history.

As Pollin, a brilliant and creative economist who spends much of his
time advancing progressive counter-models--both for African nations
and for advanced capitalist countries--emphasizes, "it's important to
pummel the Sachs's of the world on this point, because they are
changing, slowly. To get the world to change, their 1980s-1990s views
need to be totally discredited. It's not enough to just say Milton
Friedman was an ultra right winger and leave it at that."
<END BLOCKQUOTE>

Does anyone know where he got this quote?  I don't recall this from
_contours_ and it sounds like something he said in a more colloquial
setting.  But I can't see Cockburn and Pollin hanging out.

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