Mont Pelerin Society members accepted that humans must remain slaves to the state

Evidence

Among our members, there are some who are able to imagine a viable society without a state … For most of our members, however, social order without a state is not readily imagined, at least in any normatively preferred sense … Of necessity, we must look at our relations with the state from several windows, to use the familiar Nietzschean metaphor … Man is, and must remain, a slave to the state. But it is critically and vitally important to recognize that ten per cent slavery is different from fifty per cent slavery. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 118

Categorization

• XREF: Direct quote from James Buchanan that starkly refutes the libertarian self-image of the thought collective; anchor for the section arguing neoliberalism is a statist project. — connects to: Mont Pelerin Society members deny the salience of class in modern economies — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 1973
• SEED: The ‘ten per cent slavery vs fifty per cent slavery’ framing could anchor an essay on how neoliberal ideology reframes its own statism as a matter of degree rather than kind.