Humanitarian anti-totalitarianism aligned more with neoliberals than with Arendt’s thought.

Evidence

The anti-totalitarianism of LSF had less in common with Arendt’s work on totalitarianism, which she depicted as a phenomenon of imperialism, than with that of the neoliberals, for whom socialism led straight to totalitarianism. Increasingly, the Third World vision of economic redistribution appeared to be not only economically suicidal, but also a ‘totalitarian’ threat to human rights. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 436

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A dense intellectual-history claim: the humanitarian rejection of economic redistribution was ideologically harnessed to neoliberal anti-statism while diverging from the actual theoretical source (Arendt) it claimed.