Neoliberal think tanks functioned as an intellectual vanguard like Leninists.
Evidence
As Harvey shows, neoliberals were more Leninist than the Leninists, using think-tanks as the intellectual vanguard to create the ideological climate in which capitalist realism could flourish. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 65
Categorization
- CANDY: The ‘more Leninist than the Leninists’ formulation is a compact, memorable inversion good for conversation.
- XREF: connects to: Neoliberal intellectuals formed a thought collective as a unit — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 10; Partisan think tanks converted neoliberal philosophy into practical political tools. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1912; Postwar business conservatives built think tanks that functioned like political parties without mass support. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1440 (+1 more)
Related
- Partisan think tanks converted neoliberal philosophy into practical political tools. (similarity 0.87)
- Neoliberal think tanks were designed to influence elites rather than politicians (similarity 0.84)
- Neoliberalism targets elite opinion through knowledge redefinition, not direct corporate service. (similarity 0.84)
- Neoliberal intellectuals formed a thought collective as a unit (similarity 0.83)
- Neoliberal networks organized their intellectual labor as military-style artillery divisions (similarity 0.83)
- The neoliberal thought collective is a multilevel, multiphase, multisector political capacity-building project (similarity 0.83)
- Neoliberals understood the organizational nature of knowledge better than their critics did (similarity 0.82)
- Neoliberalism is a mutable thought collective, not a fixed market-fundamentalist creed (similarity 0.81)
- Neoliberalism’s cohesion comes from thought-collective structure, not explicit doctrine (similarity 0.81)
- Neoliberal think tanks were standardized through explicit managerial blueprinting (similarity 0.81)
- Neoliberal intellectuals distrusted business leaders and sought to reeducate them (similarity 0.81)
- Neoliberalism is a self-consciously evolving thought collective, not a fixed catechism (similarity 0.81)
- Neoliberal intellectuals self-described as entrepreneurially alert, not dogmatic (similarity 0.80)
- Neoliberalism’s founders believed ideological change demanded deliberate collective organization (similarity 0.80)
- Neoliberalism self-consciously planned as a multi-generational intellectual project (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Neoliberal intellectuals formed a thought collective as a unit
#corroborates(0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 10 - The neoliberal thought collective is a multilevel, multiphase, multisector political capacity-building project
#expands(0.80) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 1325 - Postwar business conservatives built think tanks that functioned like political parties without mass support.
#expands(0.78) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1440 - Partisan think tanks converted neoliberal philosophy into practical political tools.
#corroborates(0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1912