The criticisms you're making here are also criticisms that IMO hold valid for the entire US antiglobalization movement of the late 1990s / early 2000s of which Klein was a part, so I wouldn't expect the book to get any less dualistic. (I still run into this kind of thing constantly in Americans who are starting to think about colonialism but haven't worked very hard at at yet). On the one hand, awareness of how global inequality shapes the global marketplace and makes us unequal players in it is very very good. On the other hand, this tendency to relentlessly cast people in the Third World as passive recipients of economic oppression pissed me off when I was a card-carrying member of the antiglobalization movement, and it pisses me off more now. (This is also why I tend to resist the tendency of US-ian leftists to cast their own country as a literal global supervillian that is Worse Than Anything Ever in The History of the World. I mean, yes, we can suck pretty bad, and we have more power with which to suck than anyone else, and we should try to quit being such jerks - but acting like everyone else is helpless before our super-special magical never-before-seen evilness is in its own way super-narcissistic and casts us - in my view - as somehow realer and specialer than everyone else on the planet.)