Neoliberal responses to anticolonialism mirrored liberal imperialist culturalist alibis.

Evidence

The neoliberal response to anticolonialism followed the pattern that Karuna Mantena has identified in the later period of the British Empire, when liberal imperialist disillusionment in the face of resistance to the ‘civilising’ mission was followed by recourse to culturalist rationalisations for failure which served as ‘alibis of empire’. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 914

Categorization

• XREF: Maintains the reader’s thread on how economic ideology absorbs and recodes anticolonial resistance — connects to the human-rights discourse debate. — connects to: Neoliberals feared colonial anti-imperialism would morph into anti-capitalism — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 251; Neoliberals reframed inequality as apolitical difference to erase colonial exploitation. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 404; Neoliberals redefined imperialism as an effect of politicising the economy, not of capitalist expansion. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 231 (+4 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: A tight analytical parallel: failure rationalized via cultural deficit recurs across imperial and neoliberal projects — a building block for the reader’s argument about market ethics and their global aftermath.

Broader Connections

• Neoliberals reframed inequality as apolitical difference to erase colonial exploitation. #expands (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 404
• Liberal rhetoric can mask imperial racism as benevolence #exemplifies (0.85)
• Neoliberals redefined imperialism as an effect of politicising the economy, not of capitalist expansion. #contradicts (0.78) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 231
• Neoliberals argued that politicizing the economy, not capitalism, caused imperialism. #contradicts (0.78) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 434
• Neoliberal structural adjustment replaced postwar modernization as imperial policy #corroborates (0.75)
• Neoliberalism replaced modernization as the Clinton-era imperial model #corroborates (0.75)