Neoliberalism claimed openness to all viewpoints while privately enforcing ideological conformity

Evidence

Here, I believe, we can witness the birth of one of the trademark “double truth” doctrines of neoliberalism at the MPS. By professing a continuation of classical liberalism to outsiders, neoliberals lauded a tolerant open society that let all positions have a fair hearing and full empirical test. Hayek’s Road is written in this register, with its dedication, “To socialists of all parties.” Divergent views should compete and be criticized from the opposing camp. Everyone, they said, was welcome to participate. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 200

Categorization

• XREF: Evokes Gramscian hegemony and Bourdieu’s symbolic violence — how a movement secures dominance by controlling the terms of debate rather than winning arguments. — connects to: Capitalism absorbed its critics’ language to legitimize neoliberal privatization — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 439; Neoliberalism’s public rhetoric of open liberalism contradicted its actual closed, hierarchical organization — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 200; Neoliberalism rests on a double truth separating elite doctrine from mass propaganda — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 2146 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism rests on a double truth separating elite doctrine from mass propaganda #corroborates (0.90) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2146
• Neoliberalism framed itself as a defence of individual freedom against all collectivist systems. #corroborates (0.80)