Neoliberal activists lobbied the US government against anti-apartheid sanctions.

Evidence

In its mission statement, the ARA called sanctions “an aid and encouragement to barbarism” and paid homage to the “supreme gallantry and value of Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) as an outer bastion of the ­Free World in Africa.” Into the 1980s and the rise of the divestment movement on university campuses, Davenport continued to condemn the “immoral war of aggression on South Africa” driven by the “mania of majority rule” and a devotion to “the follies of doctrinaire democracy.” In 1985 he complained directly to the White House about sanctions and received written support from the assistant to the president, Pat Buchanan. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 580

Categorization

• XREF: The ARA’s rhetoric of sanctions as ‘barbarism’ parallels the anti-boycott framing in other neoliberal trade contexts, and connects to Pat Buchanan’s later paleoconservatism. — connects to: Core neoliberal intellectuals actively opposed universal suffrage in Southern Africa. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 578

Broader Connections

• Core neoliberal intellectuals actively opposed universal suffrage in Southern Africa. #expands (0.85) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 578