Editing Naomi Klein (section)

=== Venezuela ===
Klein signed a 2004 petition titled "We would vote for [[Hugo Chávez]]".<ref>{{cite web|title=We would vote for Hugo Chavez |website= Counterpunch.org |url= https://www.counterpunch.org/2004/07/27/we-would-vote-for-hugo-chavez/| date=July 24, 2004|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221223110908/https://www.counterpunch.org/2004/07/27/we-would-vote-for-hugo-chavez/|archive-date=December 23, 2022}}</ref><ref name= "KirchickVenezuela" /> In 2007, she described [[Venezuela]] under the Chávez government as a country where "citizens had renewed their faith in the power of democracy to improve their lives", and described Venezuela as a place sheltered by Chávez's policies from the economic shocks produced by capitalism.<ref name= "KleinShockDoctrine">{{cite book| last1=Klein|first1=Naomi|title=The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism|date=2010|publisher=Henry Holt| isbn=978-1429919487 |pages= 566, 549}}</ref> Rather, according to Klein, Chávez protected his country from financial crisis by building "a zone of relative economic calm and predictability."<ref name= "KleinShockDoctrine"/><ref name= "KleinShcckResistance">{{cite magazine| last1=Klein| first1=Naomi| title=Latin America's Shock Resistance| url=https://www.thenation.com/article/latin-americas-shock-resistance/ |access-date=August 4, 2017| magazine= The Nation| date=November 8, 2007|archive-date=August 4, 2017| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170804183350/https://www.thenation.com/article/latin-americas-shock-resistance/|url-status=dead}}</ref> According to reviewer [[Todd Gitlin]], who described the overall argument of Klein's book ''[[The Shock Doctrine]]'' (2007) as "more right than wrong," Klein is "a romantic," who expected that the Chávez government would produce a bright future in which worker-controlled co-operatives would run the economy.<ref name="GitlinFirst">{{cite news |last1=Gitlin|first1=Todd|title=First we take Chase Manhattan ... |newspaper= Globe and Mail |date= September 8, 2007| id={{ProQuest|383406476}}}}</ref> ''The Shock Doctrine'' was consistent with her prior thinking about [[globalization]], and in that book she describes Chávez' policies as an example of public control of some sectors of the economy as protecting poor people from harm caused by globalization.<ref>{{cite news|last1= Campbell|first1=Leslie|title=Audacious Undertaking: Review of The Shock Doctrine| url= http://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2007/11/audacious-undertaking/| work=[[Literary Review of Canada]]| date= November 2011}}</ref> In 2017, Mark Milke and conservative writer [[James Kirchick]] criticized Klein for her support of Chávez.<ref name= "KirchickVenezuela">{{cite news |last1= Kirchick|first1=James|title=Remember all those left-wing pundits who drooled over Venezuela?| url= http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kirchick-venezuela-pundits-20170802-story.html| access-date= September 15, 2023| newspaper= Los Angeles Times|date=August 2, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine| last1= Milke|first1=Mark|title=Venezuela's collapse and the 'useful idiots' of the Canadian left|url= http://www.macleans.ca/opinion/venezuelas-collapse-and-the-useful-idiots-of-the-canadian-left/|access-date=August 4, 2017|magazine= Maclean's |date= May 19, 2017}}</ref>