Naomi Klein
Canadian writer and journalist, author of No Logo (1999), The Shock Doctrine (2007), This Changes Everything (2014), Doppelganger (2023) and, with Astra Taylor, End Times Fascism (2026). Writes the newsletter Patterns.
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Their wordsI’ve been around the left for a while, but I have never seen a movement rise this quickly or organically.
↗The Bots Are Just The Closersnaomiklein.substack.com 1st of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsMy case to you is that AI is surging through our culture, in part, because so many people are desperately trying to get out of their lives.
↗The Bots Are Just The Closersnaomiklein.substack.com 2nd of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsThese questions are urgent, especially as the bubble currently holding up the global economy audibly hisses air. When the crash comes, we will, very briefly, have the most leverage we will ever have.
↗The Bots Are Just The Closersnaomiklein.substack.com 3rd of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsThat’s what Sam Altman’s fantasy of intelligence-as-a-utility misses: the figuring out is the point.
↗The Bots Are Just The Closersnaomiklein.substack.com 4th of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsA big crisis is coming. These companies have gambled the entire economy on the belief that one of them gets to win.
↗The Bots Are Just The Closersnaomiklein.substack.com 5th of 6 in this piece
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Our reading
The answer to the coming crisis is democratic socialism, going further than the New Deal.
Their wordsThe New Deal didn’t go far enough. This time our boldest demands need to be ready, and what we need is democratic socialism.
↗The Bots Are Just The Closersnaomiklein.substack.com 6th of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsAstra and I wrote this book because we are convinced that end times fascists are like vampires: the more they are exposed to sunlight, the weaker they become, since their worldview is deeply antithetical to life and all that most people cherish.
↗End Times Fascism in the news, making newsnaomiklein.substack.com
- 5 weeks earlier
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Their wordsBut the once-fringe ideas espoused by the white supremacist mass shooter have steadily migrated from the margins to the centres of power, as Astra and I demonstrate in our book.
↗The Shocks Are Coming - Who Do We Want Be?naomiklein.substack.com
- 7 weeks earlier
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Their wordsToday, Prime Minister Mark Carney is going much further on this front than his predecessor; as the nation burns, he celebrates new fossil fuel projects as “nation building.”