Human-rights activism was deployed to shift blame from global economy to states.

Evidence

The human rights vision outlined by LSF was not simply an alternative to the structural analysis embodied in the NIEO – rather, it was part of a concerted attempt to shift attention from the global economy to the Third World state. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 426

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s stated interest in how human-rights discourse and market ethics interact — connects to Moyn’s ‘Not Enough’ critique of human rights abandoning economic rights. — connects to: Humanitarian NGOs helped shift blame for poverty onto Third World states. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 381; Human rights language was mobilized against demands for postcolonial economic redistribution. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 379; The 1970s human rights movement actively undermined the New International Economic Order — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 427
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that human rights advocacy functioned as a structural-argument substitute, not complement, reframes the entire ethical stakes of rights discourse.

Broader Connections

• Human rights language was mobilized against demands for postcolonial economic redistribution. #corroborates (0.88) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 379
• The 1970s human rights movement actively undermined the New International Economic Order #expands (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 427