Max Reynard
Max Reynard
Neoliberalism’s Double Lives
Naomi Klein on creating an “unselfing” to establish solidarity & community
a review of
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023
Naomi Klein’s most recent book is a worthwhile analysis of fascist and reactionary organizing that began with the Covid-19 pandemic and continues to the present. Encompassing both liberatory and electoral politics, her jumping off point is the persistent confusion in public between herself and highbrow feminist-cum-MAGA acolyte, Naomi Wolf. But this is like the McGuffin in a detective story: it’s the animating ghost—doppelgangers often showing up as poltergeists—that takes us through a much more interesting journey than the initial question portends.
May 31, 2025 Read the whole text...