Re: Imagine a capitalist paradise inspired by the fictions of Ayn Rand (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 08:18:50 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > ha

Wow, weird.  Sounds like an Adam Curtis film in book form.

 >  > Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 11:15:56 -0400 (EDT)
 >  > From: PM Press <http://www.pmpress.org/~newsletter>
 >  > 
 >  > Raymond Craib calls these experiments “libertarian exit" and his new book, 
 >  > Adventure Capitalism, is a global history of this ideology and practice. 
 >  > Imagine a capitalist paradise. An island utopia governed solely by the rules 
 >  > of the market and inspired by the fictions of Ayn Rand and Robinson Crusoe. 
 >  > Sound far-fetched? It may not be. The past half century is littered with 
 >  > the remains of such experiments in what Raymond Craib calls “libertarian 
 >  > exit.” Often dismissed as little more than the dreams of crazy, rich 
 >  > Caucasians, exit strategies have been tried out from the southwest Pacific 
 >  > to the Caribbean, from the North Sea to the high seas, often with dire 
 >  > consequences for local inhabitants. Based on research in archives in the US, 
 >  > the UK, and Vanuatu, as well as in FBI files acquired through the Freedom of 
 >  > Information Act, Craib explores in careful detail the ideology and practice 
 >  > of libertarian exit and its place in the histories of contemporary cap­
 >  > italism, decolonization, empire, and oceans and islands. Adventure 
 >  > Capitalism is a global history that intersects with an array of figures: 
 >  > Fidel Castro and the Koch brothers, American segregationists and Melanesian 
 >  > socialists, Honolulu-based real estate speculators and British Special 
 >  > Branch spies, soldiers of fortune and English lords, Orange County engineers 
 >  > and Tongan navigators, CIA operatives and CBS news executives, and a new 
 >  > breed of techno-utopians and an old guard of Honduran coup leaders. This is 
 >  > not only a history of our time but, given the new iterations of privatized 
 >  > exit—seasteads, free private cities, and space colonization—it is also a 
 >  > history of our future.