TY  - BOOK
AU  - Slobodian,Quinn
TI  - Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right
SN  - 9781890951917
AV  - HB74.P65 S5795 2025
U1  - 330 23/eng/20241120
PY  - 0000///April 152025///
CY  - Brooklyn, New York
PB  - Zone Books
KW  - Hayek, Friedrich A. von
KW  - Economics
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Scientific racism
KW  - Equality
KW  - Right-wing extremists
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 21st Century
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory
N1  - new book 2025 spring; Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-268) and index
N2  - "The story of the American Right is often told as the fusion of the free market and religion. Yet recent decades have seen the rise of a new fusionism which turns to nature and science to defend naturalized inequality and the Social Darwinist virtues of competition"--; "How neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold War. Neoliberals should have seen the end of the Cold War as a total victory-but they didn't. Instead, they saw the chameleon of communism changing colors from red to green. The poison of civil rights, feminism, and environmentalism ran through the veins of the body politic and they needed an antidote.To defy demands for equality, many neoliberals turned to nature. Race, intelligence, territory, and precious metal would be bulwarks against progressive politics. Reading and misreading the writings of their sages, Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, they articulated a philosophy of three hards-hardwired human nature, hard borders, and hard money-and forged the alliances with racial psychologists, neoconfederates, ethnonationalists, and goldbugs that would become known as the alt-right. Following Hayek's bastards from Murray Rothbard to Charles Murray to Javier Milei, we find that key strains of the Far Right emerged within the neoliberal intellectual movement not against it. What has been reported as an ideological backlash against neoliberal globalization in recent years is often more of a frontlash. This history of ideas shows us that the reported clash of opposites is more like a family feud"--
ER  -