Neoliberal anti-refugee argument frames redistribution to foreigners as theft from citizens

Evidence

A case in point is Erich Weede, sociology professor, MPS member since 1992, and leader of the right wing of the German Hayek Society. In an article from 2016, Weede, who has argued for the genetic basis of differential “human capital” endowments and has correlated economic growth to IQ, called for the closing and fortification of borders to prevent the influx of refugees. Using an intergenerational zero-sum logic, he wrote that “one must not forget that governments are always dispensing other people’s money—or in the case of higher and rising state debts, even the money of underage and yet unborn tax payers. Those who give governments the freedom to do good for foreigners must by necessity take freedom and property away from citizens.” Lifeboat neoliberalism sees empathy as feckless state spending, and openness to foreigners as a downgrading of human capital. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 30

Categorization

• SHARE: Erich Weede, MPS member and German Hayek Society right-wing leader, explicitly ties immigration to genetic human-capital and IQ claims - worth sending to anyone tracking right-neoliberal border politics.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberals tarred Third World redistribution schemes as totalitarian — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 427; Neoliberals framed welfare states as existential threats to individual rights and civilisation; Neoliberalism triumphed through political arguments against redistribution, not market-efficiency claims — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 437 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism triumphed through political arguments against redistribution, not market-efficiency claims #expands (0.80) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 437
• Neoliberals tarred Third World redistribution schemes as totalitarian #qualifies (0.75) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 427
• Right-wing neoliberals justify border closure through utility-of-human-capital logic #responds-to (0.75) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 30
• Neoliberal thought framed welfare rights as contradicting rather than completing civil rights #qualifies (0.75) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 162
• Neoliberals framed welfare states as existential threats to individual rights and civilisation #qualifies (0.72)
• Conservative-neoliberal politics combines free markets with restricted migration and cultural homogeneity #qualifies (0.70) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 26