Neoliberal intellectuals saw Bandung as a resource against Western colonialism

Evidence

At the 1956 meeting of the Mont Pèlerin Society, devoted to ‘The Challenge of Communism and the Response of Liberty’, the German ordoliberal Alexander Rüstow praised the ‘tremendous, epoch-making importance’ of the previous year’s Bandung conference. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 275

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how neoliberal ideology absorbed anticolonial critique to discipline Western states — echoes themes in Slobodian’s ‘Globalists’ on ordoliberals and empire. — connects to: Neoliberals feared colonial anti-imperialism would morph into anti-capitalism — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 251; Neoliberals cast colonial rule as a pragmatic requirement for Western raw material access — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 294; Neoliberals rejected Millian social democracy more than colonial rule itself — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 246 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberals feared colonial anti-imperialism would morph into anti-capitalism #expands (0.80) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 251
• Early neoliberal development theory echoed colonial assumptions about non-Western peoples #expands (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1290
• Neoliberals cast colonial rule as a pragmatic requirement for Western raw material access #expands (0.75) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 294
• Neoliberals rejected Millian social democracy more than colonial rule itself #complicates (0.75) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 246
• Nehru barred imperialist-critique discussion at Bandung as a governmental gathering #complicates (0.70) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 559