End Times Fascism - and the Fight for the Living World

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.

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Praise:

“[End Times Fascism] will be a playbook for how a lot of progressives respond to the fix we find ourselves in.” - Bill McKibben, from “The Ezra Klein Show”

“From two of the left’s sharpest thinkers, this inspired book maps the ideas common to three virulent strains of contemporary politics … Righteously alarmed, the authors have given us a new way to grasp some of our biggest problems. [End Times Fascism is] an astute, original-minded analysis of the apocalyptic thinking that links tech, politics, and religion.” - Kirkus Reviews

Publishers Weekly selected the book to their top ten list of the most anticipated new books in the Politics & Current events category, as part of their fall preview issue.

“Klein and Taylor cogently examine the way technocrats, survivalists, and religious purists have rejoiced in the paradigm shift from societal sustainability to utopian upheaval . . . While the message of impending doom pervades the narrative, the authors’ profoundly insightful analysis delineates concrete, achievable methods for navigating this daunting new territory.”

“These two public intellectuals have been some of my guiding stars over the past six years. Klein is a sharp, elegant thinker with deep insight into our current polycrisis. And Taylor, as an organizer, filmmaker, and author, offers a beautiful model for how we can put political education into direct action (and art). They’ve respectively tackled in print the rise of conspiracy theories, debt as an economic structure, the ethics of solidarity, and the psychological origins of reactionary politics. I can’t think of better wizards to weigh in on the subject of end times fascism. (Especially: how we survive it.)” - Lit Hub

“This book hits you with its moral and intellectual force.” - Karen Hao, Author of Empire of AI

“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 is 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, Author of Shy and Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

“End Times Fascism is an astonishingly clear account of, well, all of this. Zombie capitalism. Crony politics. Authoritarian buffoonery. The tyranny of bits and bytes. Rightly sober about dogmatic disaster capitalism, the prose is still joyful about humanity’s prospects.” - Tressie McMillan Cottom, New York Times opinion columnist and author of Lower Ed and Thick: And Other Essays