Later ordoliberals reframed their anti-pluralism as opposing only wrong kinds of group participation

Evidence

Later ordoliberal writers like Willgerodt (1998, 48) are eager to qualify the early ordoliberal critique of democracy: “It is thus not so much a matter of radically rejecting pluralism, but to oppose a wrong way of political participation of economic and social groups from a liberal point of view.” — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 576

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s chapters discussing ordoliberalism’s authoritarian-democratic tensions; shows later apologetic revision. — connects to: Schmitt’s homogeneity requirement targets liberal interest-group pluralism, which he rightly faults — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 230; Those who reject pluralism find even open party rivalry anathema — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 198