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When governments stop managing crises and start manufacturing them, we enter the world of crisis capitalism — a political economy that treats social breakdown not as tragedy, but as opportunity.
The term, popularized by Naomi Klein in The Shock Doctrine (2007), describes how crises — economic, environmental, or political — are used to push through changes that would otherwise face fierce resistance. The pattern is familiar: A system is destabilized, citizens are told it’s “broken,” and the solution arrives in the form of privatization, deregulation, or austerity. The public pays for the crisis, and private interests profit from its repair.
Alberta’s confrontation with teachers fits that pattern uncomfortably well.
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