I hate to be rude to these people, but you start talking about Actually Existing Socialist Countries and all of sudden you feel like you’re talking to a libertarian who hates prisons. And I’m like have you read any of these… and its like nah.
That’s why I often don’t really suggest Naomi Klein and Bullshit Jobs because they are great points of entryism, but they just give permission for westerners to still have no historical understanding of the world around them. Spouting off about Totalitarianism.
Debt was written (at least partially) during the 2008 Financial Crisis so it makes sense that it is a lot different in tone/scope to Bullshit Jobs which was borne out of a bunch of essays.
Idk why OP even put Bullshit Jobs in the same vein as anything of Naomi Klein’s because Bullshit Jobs doesn’t even talk about ‘totalitarianism’ lol; and to be fair, even Shock Doctrine talks about various points in Chile, China, Iraq, and the USSR’s histories like Pinochet’s coup and Yetslin’s dissolution of the USSR.