End Times Fascism

A blistering exposé of the new far-right apocalyptic alliance that's on the move around the globe - and how we resist

The far right is on the march again – but this time it’s different from anything we’ve seen before. A new, apocalyptic alliance of religious fundamentalists, billionaire Silicon Valley tech kings and ethno-nationalists is on the move. They’re united in their belief that some kind of cleansing cataclysm is coming, and they welcome a future of shocks, scarcity and collapse, convinced they’ll be among the saved on the other side.
This is the world of End Times Fascism.

In this blistering reckoning with our age, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor take us deep into this man-made Armageddon complex – and show us how to resist it. Around the globe, they investigate how those who are making our world unliveable through climate chaos and job-consuming AI are preparing to protect themselves from the fallout, whether it’s by repairing to luxurious private islands for the super-rich, rocketing off to Mars or bunkering nations against a dehumanized ‘other’.

But, Klein and Taylor reveal, the new supremacist survivalists are far from impregnable. They have no vision of a shared future. All they offer are remixes of a bygone past: the nihilistic, sadistic pleasures of domination. If we’re to meet this critical moment and defend what’s left of democracy before it’s smashed up beyond repair, we must break the doom loop, and find a new way of living together, rooted in our existence on this earth, in the here and now. A story not of end times – but of better times. This book shows us how.

Review

'This urgent and essential book explains why we should be extremely frightened of, and extremely angry about, the man-made wreckage of the present. It is an indictment of those that engineer and profit from this apocalyptic moment. But it also a vital rallying call for a new universalism, a humane and inspiring project which might ensure our collective emergence from this crisis' -- Max Porter

About the Author

Naomi Klein (Author)
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker, and the best-selling author of Doppelganger, No Logo, The Shock Doctrine and other acclaimed books, which have been translated into 35 languages. She is associate professor of geography and codirector of the Centre for Climate Justice at the University of British Columbia, and writes a regular column for the Guardian. Doppelganger was the winner of the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction and named one of the ten best books of the year by New York magazine, Slate, and Time.

Astra Taylor (Author)
Astra Taylor is an award-winning writer, activist, documentarian, and co-founder of the Debt Collective. She is the author of The People’s Platform, which won the American Book Award, and Democracy May Not Exist But We'll Miss It When It is Gone and The Age of Insecurity. Taylor regularly writes for publications including The New Yorker and The New York Times. Taylor toured with the band Neutral Milk Hotel and was the 2023 CBC Massey Lecturer.