Xamanismo Coletivo<p>"In his latest book,"Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> of the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FarRight</span></a>", <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/QuinnSlobodian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuinnSlobodian</span></a> writes that the rise of the contemporary right — both in its <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/technolibertarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technolibertarian</span></a> and more <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarian</span></a> strains — cannot be understood without considering neoliberal thinkers’ turn to nature and science as a buttress against demands for <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/socialjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialjustice</span></a> and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/affirmativeaction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>affirmativeaction</span></a> in the 1990s.</p><p>"The book was intended as a corrective to the narrative in which the far right was understood as a response to the excesses of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/neoliberalglobalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberalglobalization</span></a>.<br>The idea is to understand how people who prioritize <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/economicfreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economicfreedom</span></a> above all else would find helpful allies in people who believe in natural forms of hierarchy such as race, gender, and intelligence.<br>Things like the present project of destroying the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/worldtrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>worldtrade</span></a> system are not explainable by simple structural incentives. It has a very strange intellectual coherence, but one that you can map out.<br>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 <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/highereducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>highereducation</span></a>."</p><p><a href="https://jacobin.com/2025/04/race-science-neoliberalism-hayek-slobodian/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jacobin.com/2025/04/race-scien</span><span class="invisible">ce-neoliberalism-hayek-slobodian/</span></a></p>