# Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ & the Capitalism of the Far Right with QUINN SLOBODIAN

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Published: 2025-08-21T08:09:00+00:00
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## Resource

Quinn Slobodian explores how the far-right has co-opted neoliberal economic theories to justify racial hierarchies and anti-democratic governance. The discussion traces the intellectual lineage from Austrian School economists to modern tech-driven movements.

## Highlights
- Main idea: The far-right is not an external threat to neoliberalism but an intellectual outgrowth of its core principles
- Failure mode: The misuse of sociobiology and IQ data to provide a 'scientific' veneer for racial and social hierarchies
- Practical takeaway: Understanding the 'fusionist' movement requires looking past religious rhetoric to the influence of biological and physical sciences
- Main idea: Modern tech-driven capitalism utilizes 'frontier modes of accumulation' that bypass traditional democratic oversight
- Failure mode: The danger of treating governance as mere 'management' or 'code optimization' without regard for social cohesion

## Topics

Neoliberalism, Far-right politics, Austrian School of Economics, Sociobiology, Political Theory, Technocracy, Economic History, Democracy

## Chapters
- 0:00 — The Bastard Offspring of Neoliberalism: An introduction to the thesis that far-right radicalism is an evolutionary product of neoliberal thought rather than an outside force.
- 4:50 — Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Physical Removal: Examining the influence of Austrian School thinkers and the rhetoric of social exclusion in online subcultures.
- 12:20 — The Evolution of Global Constraints: How neoliberal focus shifted from containing the Global South to managing decolonization and global trade.
- 20:30 — The Scientific Turn in Conservatism: The transition from religious authority to the use of sociobiology and human sciences to justify social hierarchies.
- 28:40 — E.O. Wilson and the Academy: A look at how biological determinism was integrated into political thought through the lens of the humanities and sciences.
- 40:20 — The Obsolescence of Human Intelligence: How automation and AI threaten the white-collar labor stratum that previously anchored middle-class stability.
- 48:10 — Governance vs. Management: Critiquing the 'Twitter model' of applying corporate restructuring logic to the federal government and the limits of political management.

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