Cold War polarization radicalized French neoliberalism and narrowed its earlier cross-class audience.

Evidence

Whereas in the 1930s this set of ideas could find an audience beyond traditional liberal circles (attracting, for instance, trade-union leaders), this became impossible in the context of the Cold War. Neoliberalism was defended in the 1930s by some of the most renowned economists and businessmen, but its advocates formed only a minority within the intellectual field of the 1960s: French neoliberalism had become radicalized in opposition to the expansion of the welfare state. However, the conceptions traditionally associated with French neoliberalism subsequently spread into other groups. By the time French liberalism enjoyed a revival in the 1970s and 1980s, neoliberalism had already inspired governmental practice but was condemned by new neoliberals for its supposed collusion with social democracy. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 273

Categorization

• QUESTION: What specific 1930s trade-union alliances existed, and did any parallel broadening happen in other national liberalisms before the Cold War?
• XREF: The claim that late neoliberals condemned earlier versions for ‘collusion with social democracy’ parallels how Mont Pèlerin veterans were later depicted as not hardline enough by Thatcherite/Chicago-school purists. — connects to: French neoliberalism split into administrative and radical faces that mutually supported each other — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 301; Cold War anticommunism and colonial economics stunted early neoliberal development thinking — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1267; Escalating polarization in 1960 crushed centrist moderates in France’s Algerian debate
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 273

Broader Connections

• Escalating polarization in 1960 crushed centrist moderates in France’s Algerian debate #exemplifies (0.78)
• French neoliberalism split into administrative and radical faces that mutually supported each other #complicates (0.72) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 301
• Cold War anticommunism and colonial economics stunted early neoliberal development thinking #expands (0.72) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1267