Dig: Hayek’s Bastards w/ Quinn Slobodian
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🗓️ 20 May 2025
⏱️ 154 minutes
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Featuring Quinn Slobodian on his book Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right. MAGA and its far-right populist siblings around the world aren’t just a backlash to neoliberalism. The far-right has also long been animated by extremist mutant neoliberal, anarcho-capitalist, and paleo-libertarian strains that in the 1980s and ’90s built a new New Fusionist politics of capitalist extremism — a politics that promoted IQ as the measure of individual and racial value; hard borders for humans with free trade for capital; and gold as the only true currency.
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| 1:39.1 | Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. |
| 1:44.4 | My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. |
| 1:50.7 | We've got Dig fan favorite Quinn Slobodian back on the show to discuss his excellent new book, Hayek's Bastards, race, gold, IQ, and the capitalism of the far right. |
| 1:58.1 | After 2016, Trump's victory was often explained as revolt against neoliberal |
| 2:04.4 | globalization from the populist right propelled by white working class voters left behind, |
| 2:11.0 | suffering deaths of despair. That is part of the story, for sure. But what Slobodian shows is that, in fact, the far right |
| 2:19.9 | has also been animated by the forces of anarcho-capitalism and paleo-libertarianism. Mutant strains |
| 2:27.2 | of neoliberalism that in the 1980s and 90s built a new politics of capitalist extremism, a politics that promoted IQ as the measure of |
| 2:36.9 | individual and racial value, hard borders for humans with free trade for capital, and gold as the |
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