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The book argues that billionaire proponents are actively hastening global destruction through climate change, AI, and financial chaos to create a post-democratic world where only the wealthy thrive.

ClimatePoliticsEconomicsSep 12, 2026score 2.572 posts · 376 replies across 1 instances
The thread discusses a new book by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, 'End Times Fascism,' which argues that billionaire proponents are actively hastening global destruction through climate change, AI, and financial chaos to create a post-democratic world where only the wealthy thrive. The authors suggest collective action can defeat these forces. The discussion highlights concerns about extreme wealth, climate crisis, and political upheaval.

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The book argues that billionaire proponents are actively hastening global destruction through climate change, AI, and financial chaos to create a post-democratic world where only the wealthy thrive.
Parent: Political TheoryEntity: End Times FascismImpact: negativeDate: Sep 12, 2026Target: The claim that billionaire proponents are actively hastening global destruction through climate change, AI, and financial chaos to create a post-democratic world where only the wealthy thrive.
Extreme wealth has a deranging effect, turning individuals into supremacists who prioritize their own survival over collective well-being.
Parent: Economic InequalityEntity: Extreme WealthImpact: negativeDate: Sep 12, 2026Target: The claim that extreme wealth has a deranging effect, turning individuals into supremacists who prioritize their own survival over collective well-being.

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“This is fascism with a difference. Its proponents are actively willing an apocalypse, or a wave of interconnected apocalypses brought forth by climate change and financial chaos, to hasten us towards a post-democratic world in which only a rich few survive to prosper.” New book, End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, 15 September https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/12/naomi-klein-extreme-wealth-has-a-deranging-effect-it-turns-you-into-a-supremacist
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New book "End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World" by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, out on Sept 15, 2026. It describes a new kind of fascism whose billionaire proponents are actively hastening the destruction of the world, via climate change, AI and financial chaos, to create a post-democratic world in which only they thrive and prosper. The authors offer hope that these forces can be defeated through collective action. https://naomiklein.org/end-times-fascism/ 1/n
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