Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursuit of power
TL;DR
- Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff discussed a 'paradise city' called 'New Gaza' at Davos in 2026, framing real estate possibilities within a context of mass grave.
- The book 'End Times Fascism' by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor describes a new form of fascism where proponents actively welcome apocalypse scenarios brought on by climate change and financial chaos.
- Tech billionaires like Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk are moving away from public-facing benevolence towards explicit nihilism and a desire to control or profit from crises.
- Klein connects current trends to her earlier work, 'The Shock Doctrine,' noting how privatized enclaves born of disaster, like the Green Zone in Iraq, are now seen as a growth frontier through climate disasters.
- The authors introduce the concept of 'jetztzeit' (now time) to describe the urgent, revolutionary moment that can marshal the energy of past movements to oppose this new fascist strain.
- Klein finds anger and motivation in the privatization of nature, citing Elon Musk's Starlink satellites as an example of unchecked power over shared resources.