Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
Summary
Naomi Klein’s new book, *End Times Fascism*, describes how extreme wealth and power are concentrated in the hands of a few rich people who are shaping a future that favors only themselves. She discusses events like a planned wealthy "paradise city" and private efforts to control regions like Gaza, linking these to global trends of rising authoritarianism and social division.Key Facts
- *End Times Fascism* is co-written by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor.
- The book opens with a scene at Davos in 2026, where Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff talk about a gated wealthy city called New Gaza.
- The World Economic Forum in Davos serves as a meeting place for very rich people to discuss poverty, climate, and their own plans.
- President Trump announced a Board of Peace for Gaza reconstruction that has done little after seven months.
- Klein warns about the effects of extreme wealth concentrating power, leading to a loss of accountability and growing boldness among elites.
- The book compares rising authoritarian trends worldwide, including in Argentina, Russia, Hungary, Italy, Brazil, and India.
- This new form of fascism is linked to the desire for apocalypse driven by climate change and financial crises, aiming for a post-democratic world where only the rich survive.
- Klein originally published an article on these topics in The Guardian before expanding it into the book.
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