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Books & Films — End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them.
“End Times Fascism” is the ideology of the actors who strive to make the world unlivable and then seek to protect themselves from the fall-out. Whether by retreating to luxurious private islands, rocketing off to Mars, or bunkering the nation to keep their enemies at bay, these new survivalists have accumulated power, but they are far from impregnable. Klein and Taylor show via original reporting and analysis that the many internal conflicts and contradictions and nihilistic inability to envision a shared future, even for their ostensible allies, leaves these actors vulnerable to a new kind of “pro-life” politics – rooted in reverence for our shared existence, and regard for the earth we inhabit, and must protect.
My 10th book, End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World, co-written with Astra Taylor, will be published in September 2026. We wanted this book to be available before the November US midterm elections – Astra and I firmly believe in writing books that readers can use, and we dearly hope that the movements rising up against fascist violence and exploitation will find our research and analysis tangibly useful to their vital work.
Tech oligarchs tell us they are summoning demons with their machines, religious extremists celebrate every catastrophe as a ‘sign’ of the coming messiah, and the U.S. government is betting all of our futures on such dark prophecies. The good news is that the vast majority of people, including those who voted for Trump and others like him, reject these apocalyptic worldviews. That’s why this book, though harrowing in parts, is ultimately hopeful: whether we are fighting polluting data centres or opposing forever wars, most of us desperately want a future we can believe in, and leaders who believe in us. Astra and I wrote this book because we are absolutely convinced that the more End Times Fascism is exposed to the light, the weaker its hold will become.
Description
The new supremacist survivalists are far from impregnable.
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.
Praise & Reviews
Bill McKibben, from “The Ezra Klein Show”
“[End Times Fascism] will be a playbook for how a lot of progressives respond to the fix we find ourselves in.”
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“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.”
Publishers Weekly
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.
Booklist (starred review)
“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.”
Lit Hub
“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.)”
Karen Hao, Author of Empire of AI
“This book hits you with its moral and intellectual force.”
Max Porter, Author of Shy and Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
“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 with might ensure our collective emergence from this crisis.”
Tressie McMillan Cottom, New York Times opinion columnist and author of Lower Ed and Thick: And Other Essays
“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.”
Global sales
Publishing information.
The current release date for End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World is scheduled for September 15, 2026.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States
Knopf Canada
Allen Lane (Penguin), UK
In ebook and audio in the U.S. by Macmillan Publishers
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