Hayek contrasted the well-funded communist international network with the liberal movement’s poverty

Evidence

Late in 1948, Hayek wrote to Crane in pointed tones of the difficulties he had faced raising money: “While I see daily how for the international contacts of the leftish groups, and particularly the Communists, almost unlimited means seem to be available and in consequence the closest co-ordination of their systematic efforts possible, I have so far failed to obtain any funds to speak of for similar endeavors on the liberal side.” — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1455

Categorization

• QUESTION: Was Hayek’s claim about ‘almost unlimited means’ for Communist international organizing accurate, or rhetorical? Worth checking against fundraising histories of Comintern/international left networks of the late 1940s.
• XREF: connects to: Hayek believed durable intellectual movements require cross-disciplinary transnational support networks — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 238; Hayek functioned as the intellectual bridge linking ordoliberalism to the wider neoliberal network — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 616; Hayek’s distinctive skill was coalition-building sensitivity rather than Mill-style openness — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 853 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Hayek functioned as the intellectual bridge linking ordoliberalism to the wider neoliberal network #expands (0.72) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 616
• Hayek’s distinctive skill was coalition-building sensitivity rather than Mill-style openness #expands (0.72) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 853
• Hayek founded a closed society to repair classical liberalism’s conceptual flaws #expands (0.72) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 120
• Hayek courted Christians as necessary allies for liberalism #expands (0.70) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 354