The Far Right and the "flight to safety"
 

Slobodian 169: "we can think about the Far Right in terms of an investment strategy in a world of unequally distributed assets. It is an investment strategy not only in the sense that it appeals to people's material self-interest but also in that it offers ways to manage an unknowable future."
 
a "flight to safety"
 
this sounds benign, but it could be a flight to the "safety of racial homogeneity"
 
"The return of IQ racism can be explained by the desire to have a reliable benchmark of value"
 
"We can also see the flight to safety in the much more standard form as the investment preference [for] the shiny yellow metal of gold"

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

> tagged with #economics, #race, #politics, #fear

> created September 15, 2026 at 7:45:17 AM


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