Slobodian's central argument in a nutshell: "Confounded by persistent demands for the redress of inequality at the expense of efficiency, stability and order, neoliberals turned to nature in matters of race, intelligence, territory, and money as a way to erect a bulwark against the encroaching demands of progressives and hopefully roll back social changes to return to a hierarchy of gender, race, and cultural difference they imagined to be rooted in genetics as well as tradition." (9)
> from Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the New Right (2025)
> tagged with #depressing, #zeitgeist, #intelligence, #race, #genetics, #gender
> created May 7, 2025 at 7:19:25 PM
> part of unfinished everything
search unfinished everything
unfinished everything is an original work / ongoing project (1997-present) by jeremy p. bushnell
selection, arrangement, and original text available for creative reuse under this licensing arrangement
authors' quoted words are their own.
home |@jpb.bsky.social