Ideological allies can split bitterly over control of their own institutions

Evidence

Hayek knew that the Mont Pèlerin Society had been made possible only through his close collaboration with Röpke. In the current dispute Röpke was allowing himself “to be used as Hunold’s tool,” Hayek wrote to John Van Sickle after the Turin meeting, and the two of them had become nothing better than “takeover artists.” He decided that further collaboration was no longer possible. Röpke had, he believed, “succeeded in destroying in the course of fi fteen month [sic] what others have built up in the course of as many years.” — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 347

Categorization

• XREF: The internal factional coup inside MPS parallels the reader’s broader interest in how Mont Pèlerin networks consolidated power; connects to the chapter’s overall thesis about generational transfer of the free-market project. — connects to: Institutions used as instruments can be destroyed by their own alignment with compromised allies.; Ideological politics destroys the very constituency the ideology claims to serve — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1070; The CIRL gathered rival liberal factions into one organization — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 282

Broader Connections

• Institutions used as instruments can be destroyed by their own alignment with compromised allies. #corroborates (0.80)
• Ideological politics destroys the very constituency the ideology claims to serve #corroborates (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1070