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DESCRIPTION:For our August meeting we read through Chapter 3 of Hayek's Bastards: Race, 
 Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right (Amazon), (Princeton Press), 
 by Quinn Slobadian. For our September meeting we will finish the 
 book.\n\nWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for 
 Criticism\n\n\nHow neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after 
 the end of the Cold War\n\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.\n\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.\n\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.\n\n\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   \nFor 
 more information: http://strike-debt-bay-area.tumblr.com/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/08/09/18887869.php
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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