Native informants shaped US strategy in government-organized conferences

Evidence

The Association de la libre entreprise organized a conference that gathered all these organizations in Paris in October 1950 to compare their means of action (booklets, conferences) and their goals (HIA, MPS, Box 31, Folder 8). We can here find an illustration of the “Russian Doll” thesis explained in the Postface to this volume by Philip Mirowski. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 326 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

I make a specific distinction between the figure of the native informer and that of the collaborator. The latter tells the conquering power what it needs to know in order to better dominate, while the former tells it what it wants to hear in order to better sell its wars, particularly to its domestic audience. The collaborator provides factual and strategic knowledge, the native informer provides emotive vistas and ideological slants with which to criminalize any mode of resistance to domination. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 126 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Native informers differ from collaborators by selling wars to domestic audiences — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 126; Neoliberal organizations coordinated their strategy through shared conferences — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 326

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal organizations coordinated their strategy through shared conferences #corroborates (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 326
• Native informers differ from collaborators by selling wars to domestic audiences #qualifies (0.78) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 126