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DESCRIPTION:For our November meeting we read the first five chapters of End Times 
 Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor (Amazon, MacMillan.  For our 
 December meeting we will be finishing the book.\n\n\nA scathing 
 investigation into the apocalyptic thinking of the Christian nationalists, 
 tech-bro reactionaries, and populist survivalists who increasingly define 
 the contemporary right―and a recipe for how to fight them.\n\n\nAs the 
 planet burns and shared reality melts, a new iteration of the far right is 
 on the march. How can we understand this dangerous new development, and 
 what resources can we draw on to resist it? In their scathing assessment of 
 the contemporary scene, the celebrated activists and authors Naomi Klein 
 and Astra Taylor explore how the religious fundamentalists, Silicon Valley 
 technologists, and ethno-nationalists who make up this apocalyptic alliance 
 share more than one might think: they are united in their belief that some 
 kind of cleansing cataclysm is coming, whether through the manifestation of 
 messianic prophecy, the rampages of a resource- and job-consuming 
 artificial intelligence, or the purported existential threat of immigration 
 and cultural replacement. Rather than avoiding this conflagration, they 
 welcome it, convinced they will be among the saved on the other 
 side.\n\n\n“End Times Fascism” is the ideology of the actors who strive 
 to make the world unlivable and then seek to protect themselves from the 
 fallout―whether by repairing to luxurious private islands, rocketing off 
 to Mars, or bunkering the nation to keep their enemies at bay. The new 
 survivalists have accumulated power, but they are far from impregnable. As 
 Klein and Taylor show via original reporting and analysis, their many 
 internal conflicts and contradictions and their nihilistic inability to 
 envision a shared future, even for their ostensible allies, leave them 
 vulnerable to a new kind of “pro-life” politics―rooted in reverence 
 for our shared existence and regard for the earth we inhabit and must 
 protect.\n\n\nStrike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group 
 discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Our first book was 
 Doughnut Economics. Some of our more recent books have been Hayek's 
 Bastards, Here Comes the Sun, Pacific Circuit, A Paradise Built in Hell, 
 What’s Left – 3 Paths Through the Planetary Crisis, The Age of 
 Insecurity and Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/11/14/18890290.php
SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: End Times Fascism
LOCATION:Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online 
 invite. All are welcome!
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