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Eindtijdfascisme: En de strijd om het leven op aarde
We zijn de eerste generatie in de geschiedenis van de mensheid die zoveel overlappende bedreigingen tegelijk ervaren. Dat bewustzijn heeft ons gevormd – onze kunst, ons zenuwstelsel, onze dromen. En het heeft het fascisme gevormd dat we moeten bestrijden. Dit boek is een baanbrekende analyse van een nieuw fascisme én biedt een hoopvol alternatief voor een gedeelde toekomst.
515 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 15, 2026
About the author
Naomi Klein
85 books8,879 followersNaomi Klein is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses; support of ecofeminism, organized labour, and leftism; and criticism of corporate globalization, fascism, ecofascism and capitalism. As of 2021, she is an associate professor, and professor of climate justice at the University of British Columbia, co-directing a Centre for Climate Justice.
Klein first became known internationally for her alter-globalization book No Logo (1999). The Take (2004), a documentary film about Argentine workers' self-managed factories, written by her and directed by her husband Avi Lewis, further increased her profile. The Shock Doctrine (2007), a critical analysis of the history of neoliberal economics, solidified her standing as a prominent activist on the international stage and was adapted into a six-minute companion film by Alfonso Cuaron and Jonás Cuarón, as well as a feature-length documentary by Michael Winterbottom. Klein's This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (2014) was a New York Times nonfiction bestseller and the winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
In 2016, Klein was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize for her activism on climate justice. Klein frequently appears on global and national lists of top influential thinkers, including the 2014 Thought Leaders ranking compiled by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, Prospect magazine's world thinkers 2014 poll, and Maclean's 2014 Power List. She was formerly a member of the board of directors of the climate activist group 350.org.
Klein first became known internationally for her alter-globalization book No Logo (1999). The Take (2004), a documentary film about Argentine workers' self-managed factories, written by her and directed by her husband Avi Lewis, further increased her profile. The Shock Doctrine (2007), a critical analysis of the history of neoliberal economics, solidified her standing as a prominent activist on the international stage and was adapted into a six-minute companion film by Alfonso Cuaron and Jonás Cuarón, as well as a feature-length documentary by Michael Winterbottom. Klein's This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (2014) was a New York Times nonfiction bestseller and the winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
In 2016, Klein was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize for her activism on climate justice. Klein frequently appears on global and national lists of top influential thinkers, including the 2014 Thought Leaders ranking compiled by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, Prospect magazine's world thinkers 2014 poll, and Maclean's 2014 Power List. She was formerly a member of the board of directors of the climate activist group 350.org.
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September 9, 2026
we need naomi klein now more than ever
(thanks to the publisher for the e-arc)
(thanks to the publisher for the e-arc)
October 5, 2026
Liz Wait commented under one of my reviews that she had just finished this and said in her review that what she liked about this book was that it wasn’t quite written in the way other books like this are written. That is, that often these books tell you all of the horrible things that are happening in the world and then tell you what people could be doing to stop it. Like her, I don’t like that at all. It too often feels like the utopia that they are proposing just feels all too unlikely to ever happen. This book gives real life examples along the way of what people are doing here and now that is making a difference. And that is a remarkably empowering thing.
I’m not going to go into too much detail about what this book is about – it is pretty clear from the title. A lot of people probably think that it is too much to call what we are witnessing fascism. I don’t think that at all. What I find most remarkable about the current situation is how stupid so many of the characters are that are proposing our fascist future. The book starts by discussing end times Christian nationalists. It feels too easy to think of these people as basically crazies. And yet, they hold remarkable power in so many places – not least the United States. The cruelty of these people does not appear to know any bounds. A very long time ago I read a collection of essays by Gore Vidal where he said that Israel should think very carefully about the support it gets from the Christian right in the US. Their support for Israel is not based on a love of Jews – quite the opposite. They believe that when the end times comes either the Jews in Israel will convert to Christianity or they will all die in the final battle. It would not be hard, all things being equal, to see these people as amongst the world’s worst antisemites. But all things aren’t equal and Israel is less worried about their potential antisemitism in an undefined (and unlikely) future than they are for the immediate support they receive from them in the present.
Just as insane are the tech bros who see a future where the rest of us are not merely expendable, but would be better off if we weren’t here at all. This is perhaps even more terrifying, since they hold so much wealth and so much power. What is interesting about all of this is the vision of the future both the tech bros and the end time Christians share. It is not that the vision is identical in the pathway to get there – but the destination is more or less the same. As the authors say throughout, the fascist vision is always one where we need to go through a horrible time to prepare the way for a glorious future – a heaven on earth.
And then they said something that stopped me. They mentioned the Diné Navajo tradition and how it did not propose a heaven that is in the sky when we die, but that we are currently living in paradise and that our task is to both preserve that paradise and to pass it on to the next generations. This is so much more interesting than the motto from, I guess, the 1980s that said ‘think globally, but act locally’ – even if, in some ways, they say similar things. It also sounds somewhat Buddhist, the idea of living in the here and now, rather than in some hoped for future ideal plain. The movements discussed in the book are mostly local in character. They don’t ignore the global problems the world faces, but they are also not overwhelmed by the immensity of those problems either.
This was well worth the read, and even for someone who is prone to pessimism, this was a book full of hope. That can’t be a bad thing.
I’m not going to go into too much detail about what this book is about – it is pretty clear from the title. A lot of people probably think that it is too much to call what we are witnessing fascism. I don’t think that at all. What I find most remarkable about the current situation is how stupid so many of the characters are that are proposing our fascist future. The book starts by discussing end times Christian nationalists. It feels too easy to think of these people as basically crazies. And yet, they hold remarkable power in so many places – not least the United States. The cruelty of these people does not appear to know any bounds. A very long time ago I read a collection of essays by Gore Vidal where he said that Israel should think very carefully about the support it gets from the Christian right in the US. Their support for Israel is not based on a love of Jews – quite the opposite. They believe that when the end times comes either the Jews in Israel will convert to Christianity or they will all die in the final battle. It would not be hard, all things being equal, to see these people as amongst the world’s worst antisemites. But all things aren’t equal and Israel is less worried about their potential antisemitism in an undefined (and unlikely) future than they are for the immediate support they receive from them in the present.
Just as insane are the tech bros who see a future where the rest of us are not merely expendable, but would be better off if we weren’t here at all. This is perhaps even more terrifying, since they hold so much wealth and so much power. What is interesting about all of this is the vision of the future both the tech bros and the end time Christians share. It is not that the vision is identical in the pathway to get there – but the destination is more or less the same. As the authors say throughout, the fascist vision is always one where we need to go through a horrible time to prepare the way for a glorious future – a heaven on earth.
And then they said something that stopped me. They mentioned the Diné Navajo tradition and how it did not propose a heaven that is in the sky when we die, but that we are currently living in paradise and that our task is to both preserve that paradise and to pass it on to the next generations. This is so much more interesting than the motto from, I guess, the 1980s that said ‘think globally, but act locally’ – even if, in some ways, they say similar things. It also sounds somewhat Buddhist, the idea of living in the here and now, rather than in some hoped for future ideal plain. The movements discussed in the book are mostly local in character. They don’t ignore the global problems the world faces, but they are also not overwhelmed by the immensity of those problems either.
This was well worth the read, and even for someone who is prone to pessimism, this was a book full of hope. That can’t be a bad thing.
June 19, 2026
Thank you to NetGalley and Farrar, Straus and Giroux for providing me with an ARC of this book. All opinions are my own.
I was really pleased to have a new book by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor to read, and this one lived up to my expectations!
The authors articulate a cohesive narrative around the current political moment we’re living through and offer a compelling blueprint for how to resist.
Much of this book treads very recent history, so for those of us closely attuned to geopolitics and US politics in particular, there is a lot of information that is not new. However, Klein and Taylor bring together seemingly disconnected phenomena to offer an explanation of how these trends towards fascism by different groups are ultimately deeply connected to the same deeply exclusionary, violent, and individualistic view towards the world.
At this point, it’s clear that we need to develop a compelling vision of a way to all live together in the world, one that is more persuasive than the vision that’s been presented to us by religious end-times accelerationists and tech bro oligarchs. Klein and Taylor give examples of movements and politicians who have done just this, providing inspiration at a moment when it is sorely needed. I read a lot of non-fiction that offers a single, final chapter to give possible solutions and offer a bit of hope, but this books stands out in digging deeper into the way forward.
In the end, we must save each other. Klein and Taylor offer one way we can collectively make steps towards this—it’s up to all of us to live it out.
I was really pleased to have a new book by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor to read, and this one lived up to my expectations!
The authors articulate a cohesive narrative around the current political moment we’re living through and offer a compelling blueprint for how to resist.
Much of this book treads very recent history, so for those of us closely attuned to geopolitics and US politics in particular, there is a lot of information that is not new. However, Klein and Taylor bring together seemingly disconnected phenomena to offer an explanation of how these trends towards fascism by different groups are ultimately deeply connected to the same deeply exclusionary, violent, and individualistic view towards the world.
At this point, it’s clear that we need to develop a compelling vision of a way to all live together in the world, one that is more persuasive than the vision that’s been presented to us by religious end-times accelerationists and tech bro oligarchs. Klein and Taylor give examples of movements and politicians who have done just this, providing inspiration at a moment when it is sorely needed. I read a lot of non-fiction that offers a single, final chapter to give possible solutions and offer a bit of hope, but this books stands out in digging deeper into the way forward.
In the end, we must save each other. Klein and Taylor offer one way we can collectively make steps towards this—it’s up to all of us to live it out.
June 7, 2026
Klein and Taylor do a great job about explaining the relation of some of the most godawful shit that's going on in America and around the world and apocalyptic Christianity. At the same time, they balance the awful shit going down with the people who are trying to fight it, which is needed. Highly recommended to understand our current hellscape.
September 17, 2026
The Irony of End Times Fascism
In End Times Fascism, the authors set out to expose what they call a dangerous new wave of right wing authoritarianism. But in their rush to sound the alarm, they fall into a classic, dangerous trap: they become the exact monsters they claim to fight.
The book's biggest flaw is its lazy, totalizing name calling. Instead of recognizing the deep differences between a traditional conservative, a tech libertarian, and an actual neo Nazi, the book treats them all as the exact same threat. They blindly slap the "fascist" label on a massive, diverse group of opponents. This isn't just bad political science. It’s a dangerous rhetorical tactic. When you paint your political rivals as absolute, existential evils, you subconsciously lower the bar for how society treats them. You essentially frame aggressive, illiberal retaliation as a moral necessity.
This ideological flattening creates a cold irony. While the authors warn against tyranny, their own solutions lean heavily into authoritarianism. They demand massive, sweeping state crackdowns, like the forced redistribution of wealth and heavy handed government containment of entire industries.
When you advocate for total State control while simultaneously painting your opponents as planetary threats who don't deserve political legitimacy, you aren't defending democracy. You are practicing the very fascism you claim to oppose. End Times Fascism is a cautionary tale of modern politics. Its words are proof of how easily a fierce hatred of authoritarianism can morph into a mirror image of their perceived oppressors.
In End Times Fascism, the authors set out to expose what they call a dangerous new wave of right wing authoritarianism. But in their rush to sound the alarm, they fall into a classic, dangerous trap: they become the exact monsters they claim to fight.
The book's biggest flaw is its lazy, totalizing name calling. Instead of recognizing the deep differences between a traditional conservative, a tech libertarian, and an actual neo Nazi, the book treats them all as the exact same threat. They blindly slap the "fascist" label on a massive, diverse group of opponents. This isn't just bad political science. It’s a dangerous rhetorical tactic. When you paint your political rivals as absolute, existential evils, you subconsciously lower the bar for how society treats them. You essentially frame aggressive, illiberal retaliation as a moral necessity.
This ideological flattening creates a cold irony. While the authors warn against tyranny, their own solutions lean heavily into authoritarianism. They demand massive, sweeping state crackdowns, like the forced redistribution of wealth and heavy handed government containment of entire industries.
When you advocate for total State control while simultaneously painting your opponents as planetary threats who don't deserve political legitimacy, you aren't defending democracy. You are practicing the very fascism you claim to oppose. End Times Fascism is a cautionary tale of modern politics. Its words are proof of how easily a fierce hatred of authoritarianism can morph into a mirror image of their perceived oppressors.
September 26, 2026
this was such a hard read. a good chunk of the book (90%) is klein and Taylor quoting things fascists say. and when they have quoted them, they make the same argument again and again - that the fascists of today cannot imagine or promise a future and instead plan to bunker themselves from the expected apocalypse. That this apocalypse is coming is clear to them, they simply want to profit from this „end of the world“.
While this is certainly true for the evil capitalists described, this idea of „profiting from the end of the world“ is not as new as described in the book. Eventually, capitalism has always worked liked this, it has always needed some sort of state regulation, because it aims to maximize profit by all means. it simply does not matter that much if CEOs want the end of the world or not, the way they are producing automatically entails it (looking at the climate crisis in particular). I don’t quite understand, why the same argument does not apply to fossil fuel companies in the 80s who had large campaigns against global worming initiatives - ideologically, its bosses might not have been end times fascists, but practically they were working towards the same future, the destruction of the planet by all means to keep their profits flowing.
What is certainly true is that today’s fascists are different and that they have the absolute ability to destroy us all - through AI weapons, atomic bombs etc. However, it is the „end times“ in front of the fascist that is still not that convincing to me and simply saying, they do not promise a better future for certain people is not enough for me. The fascists of the 20th century obviously had to promise their in group something („lebensraum“, better roads etc), because they were up against a powerful workers movement. as this is absent today, fascists don’t have to make any concessions. fressen oder gefressen werden eben.
But most of all, the book is really fucking boring. It’s like a collection of the most evil shit - Bezos wedding, some billionaire islands, Elon Musks tweets. We know all of that, I don’t have to be reminded of everything in detail. I would have loved to hear more about the authors‘ OWN thoughts, because this is what made „double ganger“ so strong. the questioning, the inner monologues, the hesitation. End times fascism has none of that, it’s a collection of horrible statements countered by some sort of local resistance movement that made me more depressed than ever. Because you can’t be reminded that somebody has a red button to swipe out humanity and then end with a „love thy neighbor“-politics chapter.
I was waiting for this so long but yeah 💔
While this is certainly true for the evil capitalists described, this idea of „profiting from the end of the world“ is not as new as described in the book. Eventually, capitalism has always worked liked this, it has always needed some sort of state regulation, because it aims to maximize profit by all means. it simply does not matter that much if CEOs want the end of the world or not, the way they are producing automatically entails it (looking at the climate crisis in particular). I don’t quite understand, why the same argument does not apply to fossil fuel companies in the 80s who had large campaigns against global worming initiatives - ideologically, its bosses might not have been end times fascists, but practically they were working towards the same future, the destruction of the planet by all means to keep their profits flowing.
What is certainly true is that today’s fascists are different and that they have the absolute ability to destroy us all - through AI weapons, atomic bombs etc. However, it is the „end times“ in front of the fascist that is still not that convincing to me and simply saying, they do not promise a better future for certain people is not enough for me. The fascists of the 20th century obviously had to promise their in group something („lebensraum“, better roads etc), because they were up against a powerful workers movement. as this is absent today, fascists don’t have to make any concessions. fressen oder gefressen werden eben.
But most of all, the book is really fucking boring. It’s like a collection of the most evil shit - Bezos wedding, some billionaire islands, Elon Musks tweets. We know all of that, I don’t have to be reminded of everything in detail. I would have loved to hear more about the authors‘ OWN thoughts, because this is what made „double ganger“ so strong. the questioning, the inner monologues, the hesitation. End times fascism has none of that, it’s a collection of horrible statements countered by some sort of local resistance movement that made me more depressed than ever. Because you can’t be reminded that somebody has a red button to swipe out humanity and then end with a „love thy neighbor“-politics chapter.
I was waiting for this so long but yeah 💔
October 5, 2026
A plea for and practice in grounding: foregrounding the willful alienation of the present-day fascist elite as a framework and insisting on being in the world as the path out and on. Readable. Clear. Mindful. Needful.
A lot of what Klein and Taylor had to say was not ncesserily new to me, but I found the most unexpected value of End Times Fascism to be presively what digestive help it offers in processing, ordering and understanding presicely what is not-new; post-processing is vital, and information technologies are not built to deliver it; indeed, much of the informational millieu of facism, explicit (as with Putin's propaganda, as it's been propagated at home and abroad for more than a decade) and implicit (capitalism), is built break-your-neck unceasing, quantity the quintissential quality,
I won't be re-reading on recommending this in a decade, most likely. But there is a moment, too, for books of the moment.
A lot of what Klein and Taylor had to say was not ncesserily new to me, but I found the most unexpected value of End Times Fascism to be presively what digestive help it offers in processing, ordering and understanding presicely what is not-new; post-processing is vital, and information technologies are not built to deliver it; indeed, much of the informational millieu of facism, explicit (as with Putin's propaganda, as it's been propagated at home and abroad for more than a decade) and implicit (capitalism), is built break-your-neck unceasing, quantity the quintissential quality,
I won't be re-reading on recommending this in a decade, most likely. But there is a moment, too, for books of the moment.
September 27, 2026
Chilling, infuriating, horrifying and just a tiny bit reassuring. Klein and Taylor do an excellent job of explaining why today's brand of fascism is so much more alarming than previous iterations. Three key powerful groups - evangelical Christians, tech titans, and ethno-nationalists - believe that it's already too late to save our world, and they are part of the small, deserving group of people who will survive the apocalypse, whether in bunkers, outer space, or the New Jerusalem.
You may think you already hate Trump, Musk, Steven Miller, Vance, Hegseth and their international counterparts, but reading this book will curdle that feeling to murderous rage. The authors offer a few examples of people fighting the good fight such as the Minnesotans who stood up to the ICE invasion, and Zohran Mamdani (?), and they warn against leftists tendencies to revel in their own catastrophizing. The forces of evil are strong, but the struggle continues.
BTW, New York Times book reviewer Damon Linker should f*ck all the way off with his insistence that Klein and Taylor are overreacting to a cyclical situation, and should think instead "as sober-minded adults about our many real (but not apocalyptic) problems."
You may think you already hate Trump, Musk, Steven Miller, Vance, Hegseth and their international counterparts, but reading this book will curdle that feeling to murderous rage. The authors offer a few examples of people fighting the good fight such as the Minnesotans who stood up to the ICE invasion, and Zohran Mamdani (?), and they warn against leftists tendencies to revel in their own catastrophizing. The forces of evil are strong, but the struggle continues.
BTW, New York Times book reviewer Damon Linker should f*ck all the way off with his insistence that Klein and Taylor are overreacting to a cyclical situation, and should think instead "as sober-minded adults about our many real (but not apocalyptic) problems."
September 16, 2026
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor draw together the current threads of democratic erosion by a small class of powerful, wealthy individuals, naming it "end times fascism" and explain how this presents an existential threat to humanity.
At a minimum, read or listen to the final chapter, which makes the case for the global rule of law and the UN, flawed as it is. We can't go back to what was, but there's an opportunity now to pursue justice. Despite the depressing times this is an ultimately positive book of clear ideas and demontrates it is a time for level headed bravery.
At a minimum, read or listen to the final chapter, which makes the case for the global rule of law and the UN, flawed as it is. We can't go back to what was, but there's an opportunity now to pursue justice. Despite the depressing times this is an ultimately positive book of clear ideas and demontrates it is a time for level headed bravery.
September 23, 2026
I suppose many on the right might read this as propaganda. And maybe it is: it has an in-group, to-the-choir ring to it. But what the heck, with so much about the world looking so desperate, it might just be too late in this fugue for Klein and Taylor not to pull out the stops. The race to inequality has only speeded up -- the very richest are seeing their portfolios grow by $100 million/day. By K & T's accounts, those megabillionaires are not nice people. Their comprehensive bid for power we need to take very seriously, if we care about keeping the freedoms we have left.
The first sections of the book give us the grim details, which I won't summarize here. Trust me, thry're grim. The remainder gropes toward strategies the rest of us can try to organize against it. Special attention is paid to Minnesota, perhaps our best laboratory for protest; how anti-ICE opposition there has grown, crossing racial, cultural, class, and religious lines; and how many newly awakened there have found purpose and joy in building a powerful, inclusive movement. The ball is in our court.
The first sections of the book give us the grim details, which I won't summarize here. Trust me, thry're grim. The remainder gropes toward strategies the rest of us can try to organize against it. Special attention is paid to Minnesota, perhaps our best laboratory for protest; how anti-ICE opposition there has grown, crossing racial, cultural, class, and religious lines; and how many newly awakened there have found purpose and joy in building a powerful, inclusive movement. The ball is in our court.
October 7, 2026
The chapters describing the various components of the global fascist system we live in are great but in my opinion the authors should have spent more time talking about capitalism being the root problem (they do mention wealth redistribution and unlimited growth but only in passing) and cooperative ownership in tech as an important part of the solution. Also the chapter on Mamdani is great for showing what's possible if you have a progressive element in the system but it doesn't really talk about the limits inherent in it and the necessity of breaking it.
September 19, 2026
I love the deeply ambitious endeavor that is End Times Fascism. I think Klein and Taylor help us focus on what matters in these destabilizing times, which is that the religious right, tech billionaires, and corrupt politicians want to obtain unprecedented wealth, natural resources, and dominance, and could not care less what happens to those outside their circles. Unfortunately for us, establishment politicians on both sides have let the house catch fire and burn.
It's a great look at what got us to this point, and thankfully leaves us hope crumbs sprinkled throughout.
Three cheers for wealth redistribution and new policies to protect people from the harms of big tech. And yet, I can't help but feel we (referring to all Painters of Better Future Pictures TM, not just these authors) could dig a little deeper into navigating this age of technology. It's time to play offense and go vigilante mode, imo, because who's actually going to stop all the punks running quantized AI models on their phones, hitting the nudification button 1000 times a minute? I hate to say it, but no one is coming to save us. Tech is already in the wrong hands and we can't go back. But we can still win. Creative technologies built by the right hands (community-sourced) and deployed in a sustainable and open way have a role to play if we can fit it into the vision. We just have to be intentional about putting The Role Of Technology in Our World and How To Build It Inclusively right there in the plan. I'm craving some more meaty discussion in this area.
It's a great look at what got us to this point, and thankfully leaves us hope crumbs sprinkled throughout.
Three cheers for wealth redistribution and new policies to protect people from the harms of big tech. And yet, I can't help but feel we (referring to all Painters of Better Future Pictures TM, not just these authors) could dig a little deeper into navigating this age of technology. It's time to play offense and go vigilante mode, imo, because who's actually going to stop all the punks running quantized AI models on their phones, hitting the nudification button 1000 times a minute? I hate to say it, but no one is coming to save us. Tech is already in the wrong hands and we can't go back. But we can still win. Creative technologies built by the right hands (community-sourced) and deployed in a sustainable and open way have a role to play if we can fit it into the vision. We just have to be intentional about putting The Role Of Technology in Our World and How To Build It Inclusively right there in the plan. I'm craving some more meaty discussion in this area.
September 26, 2026
Excellent, urgent, and compelling. Essential reading for 2026.
September 18, 2026
Very laudable sentiment throughout the book, but it fails to say anything adequate or revelatory to the absolute klusterfuk that's going on. It doesn't have the conceptual muscle of Doppelganger, and to be honest with you most of the time I'm asking " why isn't this a video or essay?".
Maybe it's a sign of me being brain broken and oversaturated by America's Trumpian tantrum, but again, don't feel like I got anything substantial out of this.
Recommended for someone who hasn't read any political criticism in the last 10 years, otherwise, watching interviews about the book would probably be a better use of one's time.
Maybe it's a sign of me being brain broken and oversaturated by America's Trumpian tantrum, but again, don't feel like I got anything substantial out of this.
Recommended for someone who hasn't read any political criticism in the last 10 years, otherwise, watching interviews about the book would probably be a better use of one's time.
September 3, 2026
She's done it again!!!
October 7, 2026
In End Times Fascism, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor explain that, for the billionaires and oligarchs, the most terrible aspects of the world that has resulted from their pursuits of power and wealth are features, not bugs. They don’t care that climate change is wreaking havoc because they think they’re insulated from it in figurative and sometimes literal bunkers. They don’t mind that their engineering could throw Earth into an apocalypse state, because it fits with their evangelical beliefs and philosophical dogmas.
Every new Naomi Klein book somehow feels even more timely than the one before, and each one somehow makes me even more angry than the last. This book lays out the way that the elite turn us against each other – when social services are cut and resources are (artificially or genuinely) limited, it says, then it becomes so much easier to convince people that the blame lies with their immigrant or fellow working-class neighbors than when there is enough to go around.
And yet, this book doesn’t offer doomerism as a solution. Instead it talks about the Diné Navajo belief that Heaven is not a future paradise, but a contemporary Earth that we must safeguard. It talks about the Jewish Bund, an alternative socialist movement that emerged in the same year as Zionism that focused on “hereness,” the idea that rather than emigrating to an ethnostate you can fight for dignity and freedom in your home.
The book — and here, co-author Astra Taylor’s experience as an organizer adds a great element to the narrative — covers solidarity movements and figures who are fighting the good fight. Some are people with political clout, but most are ordinary people who have organized and stood up to power in a way that we are all theoretically capable of, and must feel empowered to take out of the hypothetical and into the world.
Maybe not Klein’s absolute strongest book, but possibly her most actionable, and therefore an important read ideally situated for the current moment. Highly recommend.
Every new Naomi Klein book somehow feels even more timely than the one before, and each one somehow makes me even more angry than the last. This book lays out the way that the elite turn us against each other – when social services are cut and resources are (artificially or genuinely) limited, it says, then it becomes so much easier to convince people that the blame lies with their immigrant or fellow working-class neighbors than when there is enough to go around.
And yet, this book doesn’t offer doomerism as a solution. Instead it talks about the Diné Navajo belief that Heaven is not a future paradise, but a contemporary Earth that we must safeguard. It talks about the Jewish Bund, an alternative socialist movement that emerged in the same year as Zionism that focused on “hereness,” the idea that rather than emigrating to an ethnostate you can fight for dignity and freedom in your home.
The book — and here, co-author Astra Taylor’s experience as an organizer adds a great element to the narrative — covers solidarity movements and figures who are fighting the good fight. Some are people with political clout, but most are ordinary people who have organized and stood up to power in a way that we are all theoretically capable of, and must feel empowered to take out of the hypothetical and into the world.
Maybe not Klein’s absolute strongest book, but possibly her most actionable, and therefore an important read ideally situated for the current moment. Highly recommend.
September 30, 2026
Naomi rips
I’m a bit biased, I’ll probably always give Naomi 5 stars and definitely any book that is trying to do what this book is
It’s an assessment of the current political nutso wave happening all over the world, and a love letter to the places we call home
AI sucks, billionaires suck, fascism sucks — our planet, our cities, our towns, our homes, all rule & deserve better
*Not as strong as Doppelgänger, but it’s obvious why. The book is an attempt put all the crazy politics in one place and offer alternatives / solutions that ARE possible
There’s a favourite quote of mine that, while not included in the book, I feel connects to the main idea of End Times Fascism:
“Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will never know, and who, in turn, will suffer and hope and toil for others who will not be happy either, for man always seeks a happiness far beyond that which is meted out to him. But man's greatness consists in the very fact of wanting to be better than he is. In laying duties upon himself.
In the Kingdom of Heaven there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence is infinite, there is no possibility of sacrifice, all is rest and joy. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in the Kingdom of this World.”
— Alejo Carpentier, The Kingdom of This World
I’m a bit biased, I’ll probably always give Naomi 5 stars and definitely any book that is trying to do what this book is
It’s an assessment of the current political nutso wave happening all over the world, and a love letter to the places we call home
AI sucks, billionaires suck, fascism sucks — our planet, our cities, our towns, our homes, all rule & deserve better
*Not as strong as Doppelgänger, but it’s obvious why. The book is an attempt put all the crazy politics in one place and offer alternatives / solutions that ARE possible
There’s a favourite quote of mine that, while not included in the book, I feel connects to the main idea of End Times Fascism:
“Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will never know, and who, in turn, will suffer and hope and toil for others who will not be happy either, for man always seeks a happiness far beyond that which is meted out to him. But man's greatness consists in the very fact of wanting to be better than he is. In laying duties upon himself.
In the Kingdom of Heaven there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence is infinite, there is no possibility of sacrifice, all is rest and joy. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in the Kingdom of this World.”
— Alejo Carpentier, The Kingdom of This World
September 16, 2026
I'm amazed as to why these books do not attack the liberal center!
You could say people are crazy for trump. But clearly not that much as they gave their vote to bidden. Then they told bidden, "we and more money in our pocket" and stop funding the slaughter of kids man. The kamala came on and said we finally decided to tell biden has gone mad for some time now, I'll be taking over, but do not worry, nothing is going to change
At a gathering, she told anti-genocide protesters to shut up or else trump is going to win.
Shouldn't these books critique that just as much? Because if people demand a revolution to overthrow the system, kamala, obama and hillary with take up guns against the people
You could say people are crazy for trump. But clearly not that much as they gave their vote to bidden. Then they told bidden, "we and more money in our pocket" and stop funding the slaughter of kids man. The kamala came on and said we finally decided to tell biden has gone mad for some time now, I'll be taking over, but do not worry, nothing is going to change
At a gathering, she told anti-genocide protesters to shut up or else trump is going to win.
Shouldn't these books critique that just as much? Because if people demand a revolution to overthrow the system, kamala, obama and hillary with take up guns against the people
September 27, 2026
A compendium of reasons not to be cheerful, though the chapter on Mamdani was encouraging and the concluding chapter is must reading.
October 6, 2026
I cried twice
September 23, 2026
I like Klein and Taylor’s analysis in the first half - strong, compelling, well reasoned arguments that are thoroughly researched . My issue comes in the latter half, when Klein writes about Bernie and Mamdani with quite rose colored glasses and without analysis of policy application, especially with regards to Bernie. I noticed this in Doppleganger too, and in her online posts. I generally align with Klein politically and am a big supporter of Zohran but I think it diminishes her thesis to not address weaknesses of the movement. Her lack of addressing Bernie being an institutionalist wrt structural reform stood out to me the most.
This is a minor criticism bc it’s not the focus of the book but it’s what took this from 5 stars to 4. The book is primarily about the rise of right wing fascism and how to combat it, not an analysis of the left. But when the authors present radical optimism and the politics of Mamdani as a potential solution, while comparing it to Bernie’s presidential campaigns, without acknowledging internal responsibility for the latter’s failures, it does weaken the book.
This is a minor criticism bc it’s not the focus of the book but it’s what took this from 5 stars to 4. The book is primarily about the rise of right wing fascism and how to combat it, not an analysis of the left. But when the authors present radical optimism and the politics of Mamdani as a potential solution, while comparing it to Bernie’s presidential campaigns, without acknowledging internal responsibility for the latter’s failures, it does weaken the book.
October 8, 2026
I always hesitate to say that everyone should read a given book. But... everyone, at least in the US, should read this one! It equipped me not only with information about how our world is being taken over by nefarious and fragile men with immense amounts of wealth and power, but also with critical frameworks to think about these concerted attacks on life.
The book explores the union between tech oligarchs and Christian nationalists, arguing that both groups have co-opted the power of the state to do their bidding. The authors analyze how AI and data centers are interwoven with government overreach, surveillance, the military industrial complex, and other anti-democratic systems. In addition to looking at the environmental and social impacts of these technologies, the book explores their underlying existential and philosophical narratives. The thesis of the book is that these powerful industries, government institutions, and unlikable men are animated by a comfort with-- and often thirst for-- the end of times. And that's in great part because they don't see this world, the beings and ecosystems we share it with, or even humanity itself as worthy of protection.
I thought this framework was incredibly helpful because it does away with the facade of care-- if only for a few-- that liberal groups had espoused until recently. In this telling, species and places and communities can cease to exist and won't be mourned because they were disposable to begin with. This also helps to put into context the urge to escape that a powerful few strive for-- to other planets, to unregulated islands in the middle of the ocean, to multi-million dollar bunkers-- because there's nothing out here worth staying for. Perhaps my favorite part of the book was the last section, where the authors defend the idea that our movements are united by a powerful commitment to "here-ness," to defending wherever it is that each of us calls home, and whoever it is that we share it with, human and not.
I found the book to be equal parts depressing and inspiring. My colleagues said they had to put it down after a few chapters because it was too infuriating and atrocious, but I thought it was also really moving. I teared up when I got to the section that covers New York, which reads like a love letter to the city and the joys and chaos and tensions and forms of solidarity that arise out of living in a pluralistic society. As I write this review sitting on the pier while the sun sets over the changing trees, I feel so grateful to call this place my home and these annoying fellow city residents the comrades with whom I get to fight for it.
The book explores the union between tech oligarchs and Christian nationalists, arguing that both groups have co-opted the power of the state to do their bidding. The authors analyze how AI and data centers are interwoven with government overreach, surveillance, the military industrial complex, and other anti-democratic systems. In addition to looking at the environmental and social impacts of these technologies, the book explores their underlying existential and philosophical narratives. The thesis of the book is that these powerful industries, government institutions, and unlikable men are animated by a comfort with-- and often thirst for-- the end of times. And that's in great part because they don't see this world, the beings and ecosystems we share it with, or even humanity itself as worthy of protection.
I thought this framework was incredibly helpful because it does away with the facade of care-- if only for a few-- that liberal groups had espoused until recently. In this telling, species and places and communities can cease to exist and won't be mourned because they were disposable to begin with. This also helps to put into context the urge to escape that a powerful few strive for-- to other planets, to unregulated islands in the middle of the ocean, to multi-million dollar bunkers-- because there's nothing out here worth staying for. Perhaps my favorite part of the book was the last section, where the authors defend the idea that our movements are united by a powerful commitment to "here-ness," to defending wherever it is that each of us calls home, and whoever it is that we share it with, human and not.
I found the book to be equal parts depressing and inspiring. My colleagues said they had to put it down after a few chapters because it was too infuriating and atrocious, but I thought it was also really moving. I teared up when I got to the section that covers New York, which reads like a love letter to the city and the joys and chaos and tensions and forms of solidarity that arise out of living in a pluralistic society. As I write this review sitting on the pier while the sun sets over the changing trees, I feel so grateful to call this place my home and these annoying fellow city residents the comrades with whom I get to fight for it.
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October 4, 2026i found klein and taylor’s overarching arguments compelling : that messianic religion and ai tech oligarchs are conspiring with today’s racist politicians who use the brutal enforcement of the “border” to create a kind of fascism that no longer relies on the “purification” and order of the planet, rather, it is straight up driving the destruction of the world. end times fascists abscond this world in favor of colonizing space, pushing for the omnipresence of world-ending unregulated technologies, and praying for the end of the world, apocalypses we’ve already seen play out in gaza and sites of settler colonial violence throughout the centuries. the argument itself is strong and a testament to their power as public intellectuals. i did, however, feel that this book was quite rushed to put out and not as reflectively researched as prior works by both klein and taylor. i do recommend it nonetheless!
September 30, 2026
Perma-Cassandra Klein is back to give us an update on how we're continuing down a never ending rabbit hole to doom. The current crisis is that we officially in a fascist times, and they'll darn-well use that word however they wish and don't need pesky history books to show us what actual fascism looked like a century ago. Really, a lot of respect was lost in this outing: eye rolls aplenty and disbelief that today's antinomianism is so....bland. Are there aspects of plutocracy, wanna-be authoritarianism, and ethnonationalism - of course, but it's so on-brand and very 2020-something to jump to extremes. Klein and sidekick Taylor seem locked in undergrad level discourse, and to write a book on fascism today with 10 times the mentions of Israel/Palestine vs. Ukraine/Putin shows to what extent they'll play to the inner circle of readership. Of course Gazaology was expected, but you also receive ill informed takes on Datacenters (where's the information that AI usage has only recently outpaced Crypto-garbage energy demand?) The cherry on top was Taylor (who's really more jr. high level of insight) praising Albanese at the end - just despicable. I fear that works like this are expanding the literature for Blue-anon levels of informed citizens.
September 26, 2026
Cannot recommend this enough.
Klein has a brilliant way of connecting the dots of capitalism, extremist politics, existentialism and the climate emergency.
This collaboration with Taylor clearly articulates the current moment, demonstrating the links between wider politics, religion, rogue tech giants and neo-fascism.
Klein and Taylor call for an urgent, human response and present workable and positive ways to counter the climate-destroying, AI-fuelled right-wing billionaire takeover that we are currently witnessing.
Although a dark read, it ultimately inspires hope and is a valuable reminder of the power of community.
Klein has a brilliant way of connecting the dots of capitalism, extremist politics, existentialism and the climate emergency.
This collaboration with Taylor clearly articulates the current moment, demonstrating the links between wider politics, religion, rogue tech giants and neo-fascism.
Klein and Taylor call for an urgent, human response and present workable and positive ways to counter the climate-destroying, AI-fuelled right-wing billionaire takeover that we are currently witnessing.
Although a dark read, it ultimately inspires hope and is a valuable reminder of the power of community.
September 26, 2026
A horrifying, sobering, infuriating look at the groups perpetrating end times fascism. While I didn’t enjoy this book per se (honestly probably not the best for my mental heath) - it’s important and vital work, and it’s inspired me to throw the (this) book, metaphorically, at our leaders in the coming elections. If you read I hope this inspires more than discourages.
September 29, 2026
Þetta er búið.
September 27, 2026
a well written and important read
October 1, 2026
Another great book by Naomi Klein. They wrote an amazing recap of the past 5 years or so, trying to make sense of it all. Not an easy task.
Not for the faint of heart, but it's always the darkest before dawn. Here's to making it through the night. 🥂
Not for the faint of heart, but it's always the darkest before dawn. Here's to making it through the night. 🥂
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September 27, 2026The irony of logging this book on this app is not lost on me, but my god, this is a phenomenally direct, galvanising piece of writing. A manual for radical, utopian change that we are told, repeatedly and multimodally, could never be realised. There is always time to enact change and make a difference. Optimism should not be quelled.
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