Crooks and Liars has a video up of Naomi Klein. She just wrote a book called “Disaster Capitalism.” In it she basically tries to convince the reader that capitalism is bad. Nicole Belle agrees with Klein and wants everyone to read it.

I haven’t read the book and I don’t intend to do so either. Naomi Klein is a socialist anti-globalization activist. For those who haven’t noticed yet: socialism has proven to be a disaster. As such, whenever you think about economics and want to get someone’s advise, a socialist is the last person you should turn to. Better yet: even if there’s no one available for advise other than the socialist and anti-globalist, then ask no one.

Having said that, it’s important to see who listens to people like Klein and who doesn’t. Klein and people like her are blind. All the evidence indicates that globalization is actually good for everyone. Every now and then Klein and people like her talk about Africa, how globalization is destroying Africa. Funny enough Africans disagree. They don’t want less globalization, they want more globalization. They want Western countries to open their border for their agricultural products. And they’re right.

Note to Naomi: that’s globalization in action.

India: India is becoming richer and richer. It’s economy continues to grow. Less people are poor now than they were a couple of years ago. Why? Globalization.

These people, anti-globalization activists and anti-capitalists, will destroy the economy of every country they control.

Of course, they don’t care about poverty and the poor, they care about their socialist agenda – justice to them means that everyone should be equally poor. That’s what they’re trying to do, and that’s what their policies will accomplish. Naomi Klein isn’t an exception to that rule.

It’s interesting to see, though, that Nicole Belle (since she supports Klein) once again proves that American liberals are many things, but liberal isn’t one of them. Liberalism – true liberalism – celebrates the free market. For the liberal, the individual is more important than the group. For Belle and the American liberal movement, however, that’s not so. They aren’t liberals, they’re socialists. Moderate socialists, perhaps, but socialists nonetheless.

In other words: Klein and Belle remind me why European liberals and conservatives have to hope that American liberals will never truly come to power. Obama and Clinton are ok, but the hard-left – represented in American politics by people like Kucinich – is anti-economic freedom.

Instead of attacking economic freedom and capitalism, perhaps Naomi and her merry bunch should apologize for the disaster their co-ideologues brought on the world (Soviet Union, Western Germany, North Korea, etc.). We shouldn’t be talking about how evil capitalism is, they shouldn’t open the offense, they should be in defense mode since they’re the ones who truly brought disaster and poverty on millions of people.

Note: just to prevent people from falling all over themselves criticizing me / this post; I’m not talking about all liberals, I’m talking about far-left kind, as embodied in people like Klein, Kucinich, the anti-globalization movement, etc.