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

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

Quinn Slobodian explores how the far-right has repurposed neoliberal economic theories to justify racial hierarchies and anti-democratic governance. The discussion traces the intellectual lineage from the Austrian School 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' rhetoric is essential to recognizing how market radicalism and white supremacy merge
- Main idea: Modern tech-driven conservatism leverages the authority of the natural sciences to bypass traditional religious or political authority
- Failure mode: The 'management vs. governance' error, where complex state functions are treated as simple corporate optimizations

## Topics

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

## Chapters
- 0:00 — The Bastard Offspring of Neoliberalism: Introduction to the thesis that far-right radicalism is an evolutionary product of neoliberal thought rather than an outside force.
- 4:50 — The Language of Removal: Examining the coded rhetoric used by figures like Hans Hermann Hoppe to signal radical social exclusion.
- 12:20 — Containment and the Global South: How neoliberalism historically focused on constraining decolonization and protecting property rights.
- 20:30 — The Scientific Turn in Conservatism: The shift from religious authority to using sociobiology and human sciences to justify social hierarchies.
- 28:40 — The Role of E.O. Wilson: Analyzing how the works of sociobiologists provided a framework for modern market-driven social engineering.
- 40:20 — The Automation of Intelligence: How the rise of AI and the decline of white-collar work threaten the existing social and economic strata.
- 48:10 — Governance vs. Management: A critique of applying Twitter-style corporate downsizing logic to the complex infrastructure of the federal government.

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