EARLY ACCESS: Why The Right Is So Obsessed With IQ
Added 2025-07-21 11:34:27 +0000 UTC🚨 New video is live! Eugenics and Neoliberalism go hand in hand, and thanks to books like The Bell Curve normalizing the pseudoscientific discussion of race and "intelligence," we now have a government staffed by outspoken eugenicists and white supremacists. Let's take a look at how this happened, and what it means.
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PBS did a great doc (about an hour) on the history of the US eugenics movement, i've sent it to a lot of people. ugh i read that POS bell curve when it came out. bunch of bunk
Breann
2025-07-22 01:10:15 +0000 UTCFrom: The Knowledge We Have Lost In Information: The History of Information in Modern Economics by Philip Mirowski and Edward Nik-Khan, P. 53-59 Neoliberalism as a body of thought itself did not exist before World War II, and is only now beginning to be the subject of scholarly research in the history of economics. The most important fact about neoliberals, at least after they got over their earlier interwar interval of disarray, was that they were not advocates for a simplistic laissez-faire: that is one of the crudest canards concerning the contours of late twentieth-century political economy. Some of its opponents have called it “market fundamentalism”; but that also misses the point. The goal of the neoliberal project has been to redefine the shape and functions of the state, not to hobble or destroy it. In the interests of brevity, we will list a subset of six principles of neoliberalism developed jointly and severally by members of the MPS during the last half of the twentieth century, relevant to our history. These six precepts nowhere exhaust the intellectual innovations of the MPS. Novices should be warned the six principles are merely a glimpse of a much more elaborate political theory, to which we cannot do justice to here.
Doug Greer
2025-07-21 22:27:44 +0000 UTCI'm glad that you are reading Quinn Slobodian's latest. I also recommend reading Philip Mirowski's books, including The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information by Philip Mirowski and Edward Nik-Khah...and, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste:How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown (Verso). Slobodian exposes what the nutjobs today believe... Mirowski delves deeper into where those beliefs came from... Here's a review: Knowledge We Have Lost In Information: https://www.heterodoxnews.com/HEN/attach/hen227/Berger-Mirowski-Nik-Khah-Review.pdf
Doug Greer
2025-07-21 22:23:07 +0000 UTC
