For a recent piece in Left Voice, Claudia Cinatti discusses Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right by Quinn Slobodian. Click here to learn more about the book. Click here to read the full review. An expert appears below:

“The importance of this debate goes far beyond the academic sphere and has acquired a major political-strategic significance. Broadly speaking, there are two strategic positions or hypotheses on the left in response to the rise of the Far Right. One is that of the anti-fascist popular front and its various forms of “cordons sanitaires,” that is, alliances with the very bourgeois forces that brought us here. The other is that of those of us who uphold the need for a working-class and socialist alternative to defeat this new offensive by capital.

This isn’t strictly Quinn Slobodian’s topic or angle of analysis. But by shedding light on the ideological genealogy of the Alt Right, it undoubtedly provides tools for combating it on the ideological terrain, which is another front in the struggle for liberation from capitalist exploitation and oppression.”