Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy - Quinn Slobodian
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In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas shows how free marketeers are realizing their ultimate goal: an end to nation-states and the constraints of democracy.
Look at a map of the world and you’ll see a colorful checkerboard of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides. Over the last decade, globalization has shattered the map into different legal spaces: free ports, tax havens, special economic zones. With the new spaces, ultracapitalists have started to believe that it is possible to escape the bonds of democratic government and oversight altogether.
Crack-Up Capitalism follows the most notorious radical libertarians—from Milton Friedman to Peter Thiel—around the globe as they search for the perfect space for capitalism. Historian Quinn Slobodian leads us from Hong Kong in the 1970s to South Africa in the late days of apartheid, from the neo-Confederate South to the former frontier of the American West, from the medieval City of London to the gold vaults of right-wing billionaires, and finally into the world’s oceans and war zones, charting the relentless quest for a blank slate where market competition is unfettered by democracy.
A masterful work of economic and intellectual history, Crack-Up Capitalism offers both a new way of looking at the world and a new vision of coming threats. Full of rich details and provocative analysis, Crack-Up Capitalism offers an alarming view of a possible future.
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This post has 9 comments with rating of 3.4/5
April 8th, 2023
Fascist propaganda dressed up as fake libertarianism.
April 8th, 2023
Found the ***.
April 9th, 2023
what the heck as capitalism to do with Democracy? There aint no democracy in Capitalism.
April 9th, 2023
Excellent book Dean. One of your best contributions.
This book is extremely true and obviously it is only the solution I cannot agree with.
Thank you this worth a listen
April 9th, 2023
I have been listening to your contributions.
Can you please check out Yuri Bezmenov he was a KGB defector you can find his old talks about the internal workings of the communist party on Youtube or even on this site I think. Just hear what he has to say.
Thanks again for this book. It was really good.
April 9th, 2023
I read this book and I don’t understand the comments here.
The book more or less brings attention to the prevalence of SEZ’s (Special Economic Zones). Then shows the ideology of the creators who aren’t the capitalists seeking competition they claim to be. Who are actually super wealthy individuals who aim to seek rent rather than add value to the products they trade.
He doesn’t advocate for fascism at any point in this text.
Nor does he really offer a concrete solution to billionaires seeking to pay 0% in taxes. (They think of electorates as theives who are stealing the fruits of their labor through the vale of a government collecting taxes) The book seems more like a PSA than a set of policy suggestions. He just brings attention to something I was completely unaware of.
I knew about tax havens in Lichtenstein, Dubai, Hong Kong, and various Caribbean islands. But I didn’t know that there were hundreds of them accross the globe on almost every continent.
Good book, I guess the wealthy have had enough of us parasitic pions who can’t generate multi-million dollar annual incomes.
I say let them have it. Maybe they are correct in presuming they are biologically superior. Maybe they will successfully build a Mars colony and abandon us to suffer without their innovative genius. Or maybe they will ship us all up to the colony so they can enjoy a planet free of the freeloaders that impede their development. I knew billionaires were arrogant, but I didn’t know they actively hated regular people who aren’t able to earn what they can.
May 17th, 2023
@tallguy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoi_polloi
Nothing new under the sun or in your last paragraph—except that Mars is theoretically reachable by humans.
October 5th, 2023
Billionaires don’t hate people for not being as rich as they are. They hate and resent the people that create the value they extract - the global workforce. Not to mention build and maintain the infrastructure they depend on day in day out.
February 25th, 2025
Phenomenal stuff!! While they do that I’m applying permaculture to fight desertification in Spain and growing a food forest to feed people in coming decades. No purchases on the 28th! <3 I have a friend who’s a complete rightoid retard and praises Moldbug yet works a 9-5 complete baffoon.
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