The shock doctrine

[Tracie Lynn]

(1) The strategy by the worlds economic elites of imposing an extremely neoliberal economic regime on communities they control, using some form of shock: a natural disaster, a [coup detat], a war, a [financial crisis], etc. Once the community has been crippled by this first shock, the economic reforms are imposed suddenly, creating a secondary blow. Then, as the community begins to recover and fight back, the authorities use torture and police brutality to (literally) shock the community a third time.
(2) title of a book by Naomi Klein describing def. 1
(Please see [disaster capitalism].)