End Times Fascism And the Fight for the Living World

A scathing revelation about the disastrous new far-right coalition spreading across the world, and how to resist it. The far right is reemerging, but this time it is completely different from what we have seen before. A new, apocalyptic coalition of religious fundamentalists, billionaire Silicon Valley tech moguls and ethno-nationalists is on the move. United by their belief that a cathartic catastrophe is coming, they welcome a future full of trauma, scarcity and collapse, convinced that they will be among the survivors. This is the world of end-time fascism. In this searing exposé of our times, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor take us deep into this man-made complex of apocalypse, and show us how to fight back. Across the globe, the authors examine how those who are making our world uninhabitable through climate chaos and job-eating artificial intelligence are prepared to protect themselves from the fallout, whether it is taking refuge in luxury private islands for the super-rich, launching off to Mars, or fortifying nations against the dehumanized “other.” But, as Klein and Taylor reveal, the new racial supremacists are by no means invincible. They do not have a vision for a common future. All they offer is a reworking of a bygone past: the pleasures of nihilistic domination and sadism. If we are to confront this critical moment and defend what remains of democracy before it is shattered forever, we must break the cycle of doom, and find a new way of living together, rooted in our existence on this earth, in the present. It is not a story of the end times, but of better times. This book shows us how.