"Postfascist race science"
 

Slobodian 126: "The postfascist race science embraced by the new fusionists is concerned, above all, with the question of hereditary group differences in intelligence."
 
IQ plays a role in this: "IQ-centrism offers a simple and powerful story about the world that naturalizes and hardens existing hierarchies, reinforces folk understandings of difference, and disempowers efforts of collective reform"
 
"There is a focus on the connection between intelligence and time preference, or the willingness to delay gratification and plan for the future. This is important because, in the end, postfascist race science is about economic performance"
 
"IQ as a biologized credit score"

> from Quinn Slobodian's Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right (2024)

> tagged with #fascism, #race, #intelligence

> created September 10, 2026 at 12:42:27 PM


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