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DESCRIPTION:\nFor our August meeting we will read through Section 3 of Hayek's 
 Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right (Amazon), 
 (Princeton Press), by Quinn Slobadian.\nWinner of the National Book Critics 
 Circle Award for Criticism\nHow neoliberals turned to nature to defend 
 inequality after the end of the Cold War\nNeoliberals should have seen the 
 end of the Cold War as a total victory—but they didn’t. Instead, they 
 saw the chameleon of communism changing colors from red to green. The 
 poison of civil rights, feminism, and environmentalism ran through the 
 veins of the body politic and they needed an antidote.\nTo defy demands for 
 equality, many neoliberals turned to nature. Race, intelligence, territory, 
 and precious metal would be bulwarks against progressive politics. Reading 
 and misreading the writings of their sages, Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von 
 Mises, they articulated a philosophy of three hards—hardwired human 
 nature, hard borders, and hard money—and forged the alliances with racial 
 psychologists, neoconfederates, ethnonationalists, and goldbugs that would 
 become known as the alt-right.\nFollowing Hayek’s bastards from Murray 
 Rothbard to Charles Murray to Javier Milei, we find that key strains of the 
 Far Right emerged within the neoliberal intellectual movement not against 
 it. What has been reported as an ideological backlash against neoliberal 
 globalization in recent years is often more of a frontlash. This history of 
 ideas shows us that the reported clash of opposites is more like a family 
 feud.\nStrike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion 
 monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Our first book was  Doughnut 
 Economics, and our most recent books were Here Comes the Sun,  Pacific 
 Circuit, A Paradise Built in Hell, What’s Left – 3 Paths Through the 
 Planetary Crisis, The Age of Insecurity and Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for 
 Radicals. For the rest of our reading list see here.\n\n   \n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Hayek's Bastards
LOCATION:Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online 
 invite.  All are welcome!
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