To divide the world up into particular racial or cultural groups and then ascribe certain inherent qualities to them creates a different sort of set of political possibilities than saying that human nature is ultimately universal. There's a kind of soft culturaism that, i would say, is pretty main stream and probably ultimately pretty well accepted in the humanities and social sciences. By contrast, you have scientific gracism. And the response to the 19 sixties, the era of civil rights movement, ind the women's movement and a third world liberation movements, black power movements went in two directions in the nealiberal camp.
Featuring Quinn Slobodian on his book Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. The story of neoliberalism’s Geneva School—including Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, and Wilhelm Röpke—and their vision for a new global order to protect the market from democratic forces in the metropole and across the decolonizing world. An interview from archives first conducted in November 2018.
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