Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
Photograph: Tanya GoehringView image in fullscreenNaomi Klein. Photograph: Tanya GoehringSociety booksInterviewNaomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’Zoe WilliamsShe’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires.
- ▪Photograph: Tanya GoehringView image in fullscreenNaomi Klein.
- ▪Photograph: Tanya GoehringSociety booksInterviewNaomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect.
- ▪It turns you into a supremacist’Zoe WilliamsShe’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires.
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| Original publisher | The Guardian — Tech |
| Canonical URL | https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/12/naomi-klein-extreme-wealth-has-a-deranging-effect-it-turns-you-into-a-supremacist |
| Publication time | Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:00:28 GMT |
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Naomi Klein. Photograph: Tanya GoehringView image in fullscreenNaomi Klein. Photograph: Tanya GoehringSociety booksInterviewNaomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’Zoe WilliamsShe’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursuit of powerSat 12 Sep 2026 04.00 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleNaomi Klein’s new book starts on a mountaintop with two “faithful men gathering an audience to share their vision”. It’s a vision of a paradise city, gated at every entrance, no need for weapons there, everyone in it rich. One of the men has tears in his eyes as he describes its beauty.
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