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#quinnslobodian

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MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:

#CrackUpCapitalism

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#book #QuinnSlobodian #CapitalismSucks.

www.penguin.co.ukCrack-Up CapitalismLook at a map of the world and you'll see a neat patchwork of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides. From the 1990s onwards, globalization has shattered the map, leading to an explosion of new legal entities: tax havens, free ports, gated enclaves and special economic zones. These spaces are freed from ordinary forms of regulation, taxation and mutual obligation - and with them, ultracapitalists believe that it is possible to escape the bonds of democratic government altogether. Historian Quinn Slobodian follows the most notorious radical libertarians - from Milton Friedman to Peter Thiel - around the globe as they search for the perfect home for their free market fantasy. The hunt leads from Hong Kong in the 1970s to South Africa in the late days of apartheid, from the neo-Confederate South to the medieval City of London, charting the relentless quest for a blank slate where capitalism and democracy can be finally uncoupled. Crack-Up Capitalism is a propulsive history of the recent past, and an alarming view of our near future.
Xamanismo Coletivo

"#Neoliberals had always been concerned with the extra-economic conditions for capitalism’s survival, but they had usually focused on law, religion, and morality. The growing influence of Friedrich #Hayek’s ideas of cultural evolution and the mainstream popularity of neuroscience and evolutionary psychology led many to turn to the harder sciences. Changing demographics—an aging white population matched by an expanding nonwhite population—made some right-wing neoliberals and libertarians rethink the conditions necessary for #capitalism. Perhaps some cultures, and even some races, might be predisposed to market success while others were not? Perhaps #culturalhomogeneity was a precondition for social stability, and thus the peaceful conduct of market exchange and enjoyment of #privateproperty?"
#QuinnSlobodian
@zeithistoriker
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Xamanismo Coletivo

"In his latest book,"Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the #Capitalism of the #FarRight", #QuinnSlobodian writes that the rise of the contemporary right — both in its #technolibertarian and more #authoritarian strains — cannot be understood without considering neoliberal thinkers’ turn to nature and science as a buttress against demands for #socialjustice and #affirmativeaction in the 1990s.

"The book was intended as a corrective to the narrative in which the far right was understood as a response to the excesses of #neoliberalglobalization.
The idea is to understand how people who prioritize #economicfreedom above all else would find helpful allies in people who believe in natural forms of hierarchy such as race, gender, and intelligence.
Things like the present project of destroying the #worldtrade system are not explainable by simple structural incentives. It has a very strange intellectual coherence, but one that you can map out.
There’s a concerted effort right now in the United States to make the practice of scholarship as we’ve understood it impossible. It’s really an effort to defund #highereducation."

jacobin.com/2025/04/race-scien

jacobin.comThe Method in the Far Right’s MadnessToday’s far right manages to combine the call for economic freedom with pseudoscience about natural hierarchies of race and IQ. Historian Quinn Slobodian explains how these ideas can be fitted together.
Paria sans portefeuille

"[T]his #newRight does not really reject globalism but advances a new strain of it [...] The fix it finds in race, culture, and nation is but the most recent iteration of a pro-market philosophy based not on the idea that we are all the same but that we are in a fundamental, and perhaps permanent way, different." - #QuinnSlobodian

bostonreview.net/articles/free

#neoliberalism #inequality #USpolitics #AltRight #UShistory #SiliconValleyRight #FarRight #MontPelerinSociety #racialistRight @histodons

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Werawelt

Was passiert in USA? Passiert das auch irgendwann uns?
#QuinnSlobodian ist der Frage nachgegangen in seinem Buch: Kapialismus ohne #Demokratie, hier mit Leseprobe:
thalia.de/shop/home/artikeldet
Ein Artikel auf blaetter.de hat eine Zusammenfassung erstellt, die aufschlußreiche Einblicke vermittelt in das was gerade in den #USA läuft, wie es dazu kam und wie es uns beeinflußen kann. Innere Zerstörung der #Staaten und Bürger-Kriege für Kleinstaaten gehören zum Kalkül dazu.
blaetter.de/ausgabe/2024/janua

DoomsdaysCW

“Crack-Up #Capitalism”: #Historian #QuinnSlobodian on #Trump, #Musk & the Movement to “Shatter” the State

#DemocracyNow, February 20, 2025

"Who are the minds behind #DOGE, and what do they really believe? Historian Quinn Slobodian says three strains of #conservatism have converged to form the second Trump administration’s #AntiDemocratic coalition: finance-backed #CorporateInterests previously friendly to the #DemocraticParty, #ChristianConservative think tanks who have long advocated for the end of the administrative state, and the online-driven movement of reactionary extremists who traffic in #WhiteSupremacist and #NeoNazi rhetoric. Meanwhile, says Slobodian, 'Trump is a person who doesn’t believe in much, but he believes in #money,' leaving him willing to enact the political visions of these three #ProCapitalist projects. Slobodian, an expert in German history, also discusses the connections between the Trump sphere and Germany’s far-right Alternative for #Germany (#AfD) party, supported by Musk and Vice President #JDVance.'"

Read / listen / watch:
democracynow.org/2025/2/20/qui
#USPol #FarRight #CorporateColonialism #Capitalism #ChristoFascists

Democracy Now! · “Crack-Up Capitalism”: Historian Quinn Slobodian on Trump, Musk & the Movement to “Shatter” the StateBy Democracy Now!
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Paria sans portefeuille

"[W]e are witnessing something new: the convergence of three strains of politics that have never simultaneously been this proximate to power [..] the Wall Street–#SiliconValley nexus of distressed debt and startup culture; anti–New Deal #conservativeThinkTanks; and the extremely online world of #anarchocapitalism and right-wing accelerationism." - #QuinnSlobodian

What is #DOGE?

nybooks.com/online/2025/02/15/
archive.ph/WEUjr
#SiliconValleyRight #MAGA #USpol #USpolitics #Musk #DOGEbags #BigTech

The New York Review of BooksSpeed Up the Breakdown | Quinn SlobodianFor the last month, the US opinion-making class has stared agog as Elon Musk and his minions have stormed the engine room of the federal government. Young
Mediapart

Le rêve libertarien du monde fragmenté

Dans son dernier ouvrage, «Le #Capitalisme de l’apocalypse», l’historien canadien #QuinnSlobodian continue d’explorer les liens contemporains entre capitalisme et #démocratie. Cette fois, il explore les leviers utilisés par les libertariens pour réaliser leur sinistre utopie.

Par @RGodin › mediapart.fr/journal/economie-

Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️

Forgot I wanted to post this earlier this week. @QuinnSlobodian has also written an article for the Financial Times (linked in the DN transcript), but I'm not a subscriber. Will try to get through my library; meanwhile @AmyGoodman has a great interview here with comprehensive references.
#QuinnSlobodian #apartheidtechbros #SouthAfrica #WhiteSupremacy
democracynow.org/2025/1/6/quin

Democracy Now! · Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk’s Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global PoliticsBy Democracy Now!
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