Ben Harris-Roxas reviewed End Times Fascism: by Naomi Klein
Aliens and coma patients
2 stars
I'll be dead in thirty years. I might have a couple of hundred books left in me, at best, and this was one of them. I feel bitter about that.
That's quite an achievement for a book whose politics I basically share. Taylor and Klein write for a reader who has just arrived from another planet, or who has spent the last twenty years in a coma. Each chapter is a series of loosely linked stories and cases, and anyone who has been paying attention, or who has just been online, will know almost all of them already. The people who will pick up a book with this title are the people who already know all of this. I don't know who they're imagining they're explaining it all to.
There's no analysis, no argument and no synthesis. By the final chapter I still felt it wasn't building to …
I'll be dead in thirty years. I might have a couple of hundred books left in me, at best, and this was one of them. I feel bitter about that.
That's quite an achievement for a book whose politics I basically share. Taylor and Klein write for a reader who has just arrived from another planet, or who has spent the last twenty years in a coma. Each chapter is a series of loosely linked stories and cases, and anyone who has been paying attention, or who has just been online, will know almost all of them already. The people who will pick up a book with this title are the people who already know all of this. I don't know who they're imagining they're explaining it all to.
There's no analysis, no argument and no synthesis. By the final chapter I still felt it wasn't building to anything. It's a polemic, and a frankly stupid one. It's my fault for breaking my own rule to never read another book by a journalist or columnist.
