I have always found Naomi Klein’s work urgent, necessary, and surprisingly easy to grasp for non-fiction. She has always been a fresh voice to listen to and read regarding anything in the climate and social justice sphere. In her latest book, she is at it again, but this time from an unexpected angle: the doppelgänger. I had no idea that she has been consistently confused with Naomi Wolf, a feminist, turned conspiracy theory peddler. From this starting point, she dives into the way the right has taken on battles that have been historically more aligned with the left – fighting big pharma, government mismanagement, international hegemony – and how that has put the leftists in an awkward position. Who’s political perspectives are honest, and which are just a toxic and misleading attention grab in order to gain, and sustain, power?
In this interview with Ryan Grim from Deconstructed, we get a glimpse of what the book examines in the political and social realm today. Let’s listen, read, and discuss!
