{"id":25984,"date":"2023-04-16T13:21:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T20:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=25984"},"modified":"2023-04-16T13:21:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T20:21:32","slug":"book-crack-up-capitalism-market-radicals-and-the-dream-of-a-world-without-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/04\/16\/book-crack-up-capitalism-market-radicals-and-the-dream-of-a-world-without-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: \u201cCRACK-UP CAPITALISM: MARKET RADICALS AND THE DREAM OF A WORLD WITHOUT DEMOCRACY\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1680031880i\/60827630.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/5384951.Quinn_Slobodian\">Quinn Slobodian<em><\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/60827630-crack-up-capitalism#CommunityReviews\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/60827630-crack-up-capitalism#CommunityReviews\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>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.<\/strong><br><br>Look at a map of the world and you\u2019ll 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.<br><br><em>Crack-Up Capitalism&nbsp;<\/em>follows the most notorious radical libertarians\u2014from Milton Friedman to Peter Thiel\u2014around 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\u2019s oceans and war zones, charting the relentless quest for a blank slate where market competition is unfettered by democracy.<br><br>A masterful work of economic and intellectual history,&nbsp;<em>Crack-Up Capitalism&nbsp;<\/em>offers both a new way of looking at the world and a new vision of coming threats. Full of rich details and provocative analysis,&nbsp;<em>Crack-Up Capitalism&nbsp;<\/em>offers an alarming view of a possible future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Goodreads.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy Quinn Slobodian 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&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/04\/16\/book-crack-up-capitalism-market-radicals-and-the-dream-of-a-world-without-democracy\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[423],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25985,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25984\/revisions\/25985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}