Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World

End times fascism poses an active threat to the living world as religious, techno-fascist, and ethno-nationalist groups converge to accelerate global collapse, according to an interview released by The Real News Network.

Activists and writers Astra Taylor and Naomi Klein detailed this dangerous coalition in their newly published book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World. The authors identified three distinct factions driving this ideology.

Religious end-timers, tech accelerationists, and ethno-nationalist groups share core objectives despite their internal fractures. They reject systemic reforms to protect the planet and humanity.

“The End Times Fascists are a very unappealing, dangerous, noxious alliance of three groups, the religious end-timers, the tech accelerationist end-timers, and the ethno-nationalist end-timers.”

Fascism is not a historical exception, but rather capitalism under severe threat from below during systemic crises. Modern iterations draw power from conditions like climate change and extreme wealth concentration.

Tech executives command fortunes exceeding the gross domestic product of many nations. Generative artificial intelligence and data centers fuel the current surge of authoritarian governance.

“We’re facing things that are unprecedented, like climate change, like the concentration of wealth on a scale that creates someone like Elon Musk who is a trillionaire, at least on paper, which means he has more money than many of the biggest nations on the planet.”

Taylor said.

Klein explained that this logic inverts intuitive protective impulses. Instead of responding to early warning signs of crisis by altering course, adherents view carnage and catastrophe as positive signs that a new stage of human evolution is near.

This apocalyptic ideology extends into the highest levels of government in the United States and Israel. Public figures hold literal interpretations of religious texts regarding the rapture and systemic destruction.

House Speaker Mike Johnson believes humanity is heading toward a prophetic rapture where chosen elites ascend. This worldview treats pandemics and wars as positive indicators of divine ascension.

“There’s a very literal reading of the Book of Revelation which says there will be pastilence and there will be floods and there will be fires and there will be suppression of certain groups.”

Fortresses will fail because climate change disregards national boundaries.

The alliance remains politically vulnerable because it fails to deliver material benefits to its base. Economic promises regarding affordability remain unfulfilled.

Voters experience disappointment as leaders prioritize data centers and aggressive policing over standard living improvements. Brutal immigration crackdowns in cities like Minneapolis also alienate moderate supporters.

Surging fascism feeds directly off the failures of liberalism to meet basic human needs. Countering this movement requires organized left-wing coalitions to offer a credible alternative vision of the future.

Naomi Klein, author, said that is starting to happen, which is why we’re seeing such a ferocious attack on the left.