Computer Says Maybe How to Scare a Fascist w/ Naomi Klein
Apr 3, 2026
Naomi Klein, author and journalist known for The Shock Doctrine and climate politics, previews her forthcoming End Times Fascism. She dissects tech’s power grab and how information chaos fuels authoritarian tactics. She highlights movement organizing, mutual aid, and why rising fascist anger may signal resistance gaining ground.
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End Times Fascism Is A New Hybrid Threat
- Naomi Klein frames their new book as tracing continuities with past fascisms while identifying planetary-scale apocalyptism as a new feature driving today's movements.
- The project grew from a 6,000-word article into a full book because tech billionaires' detachment and ecological collapse create a distinct “end times” fascist logic.
Information Chaos Helps Fascist Organizing
- Klein argues the disorienting, algorithmic information environment is a core enabling condition for contemporary proto-fascists.
- She calls it an atomization and loneliness machine that scrambles narratives and makes people confused and isolated online.
Tech Power Is The Finish Line Of A Long Counterrevolution
- Klein locates today's concentrated tech power at the end of a half-century counter-revolution that dismantled the postwar welfare state.
- Tech's unprecedented accumulation of economic and information power is the culmination of privatization and globalized elites.
