Wolf’s claims read like a hollowed-out parody of Klein’s own Shock Doctrine

Evidence

The logical leaps were bad enough. What made it worse for me was that, with Wolf’s new focus on abuses of corporate and political power during states of emergency, something she touched on only briefly in The End of America, I felt like I was reading a parody of The Shock Doctrine, one with all facts and evidence carefully removed, and coming to cartoonishly broad conclusions I would never support. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 55

Categorization

• XREF: This is the seed of the book’s central inversion: Wolf is a caricature of the left’s own ideas, stripped of evidence — the pattern that becomes ‘diagonalism.’
• DEEPTHINKING: The realization that one’s own analytic style has a doppelganger form — same moves, evidence removed — is the precise hinge the rest of the book turns on.