The "paleo alliance" and the "new fusionism"
 

Race-science libertarians Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Murray Rothbard, and Lew Rockwell (director of the Mises Institute) reach out, in 1989, to the "paleoconservatives"
 
(oriented around the Rockford Institute in Illinois and Thomas Fleming's Chronicles magazine)
 
together, these two groups form the "paleo alliance," establishing the John Randolph Club (named after a nineteenth-century plantation owner and advocate of African colonization)
 
Fleming names their ideology "the new fusionism"
 
Rockwell describes the "new fusionism" as a group that believes there are "iron links between culture, economics, and politics"
 
Slobodian 50: "He might have added science. [...] [T]he new fusionism drew from evolutionary psychology, cultural anthropology, cognitive psychology, and genetics to support arguments about human difference and the need for segregation"
 
51: The goal of the JRC "was to bring the dynamic of dissolution afoot in Eastern Europe home to their own United States. Disintegrate and segregate: that was their program."
 
Slobodian has written more on this: see Chapter 5 of Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy
 
see also Sam [or Samuel] Francis, "another leading member of the paleo alliance"

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

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