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Mario Savio Memorial Lecture: Naomi Klein
October 27, 2009 · 8:00 PM · Pauley Ballroom, Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, UC Berkeley
How the Poor are Paying the Price for Wall Street’s Greed–and How to Fight Back!
This should be interesting. I would go but I have a conflict that cannot be rescheduled. My prediction based on her usual rhetoric: she will make at least one of these three statements.
Often in my Transitional Economies of Eastern Europe class, I think to myself as Professor Magin describes the destitute conditions of the Soviet Union, “I wish Naomi Klein could be here and learn what privatizing really entails and why it was necessary.” Leftist intellectuals often blow-off the institutional servitude and corruption that arises when government prohibits free-exchange of goods, services, and ideas.