Post-Neoliberalism

Finance and the Far Right

Inga Rademacher

Rademacher challenges the portrayal of far-right economic policies as erratic by systematically analysing their financial strategies across eight advanced economies. Drawing on a new database of far-right policy positions and legislative initiatives, she finds a coherent but under-examined project: far-right parties do not seek redistributive or regulatory financial reform, but rather aim to reassert state control over capital accumulation without undermining property rights. Not unlike the interwar models of state authoritarian capitalism, these parties plan to use selective planning to protect domestic capital, suppress democratic constraints, and forge alliances with loyal economic actors—offering a project distinct from both neoliberalism and post-war interventionism.

28 May 2025. Rubric 5