French liberals founded ALEPS as a counterweight to Marxist intellectual events

Evidence

The liberals’ dashed hopes partially accounted for the creation of the Association pour la Liberté Economique et le Progrès Social (ALEPS) in 1966. This organization, initially formed by André Arnoux, an industrialist who wanted to be admitted into the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, organized every year until the middle of the 1970s a “Week of Liberal Thought” in counterpoint to the “Week of Marxist Thought.” — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 300

Categorization

• CANDY: The detail of ALEPS being started partly because an industrialist wanted into the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques is a small, tweetable human-motivation quirk.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 300
• XREF: connects to: The Ligue recruits intellectuals who resist party discipline and prize individual liberty. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in…, 1347; Raymond Aron bridged French liberalism and the neoliberal Mont Pelerin network — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 387; Lyotard’s anti-totality stance stems from a French post-Marxist reaction — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 36

Broader Connections

• Raymond Aron bridged French liberalism and the neoliberal Mont Pelerin network #expands (0.78) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 387
• The Ligue recruits intellectuals who resist party discipline and prize individual liberty. #expands (0.72) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1347
• Lyotard’s anti-totality stance stems from a French post-Marxist reaction #expands (0.70) — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 36