Neoliberalism holds that totalitarianism results from mistaken beliefs, not inevitability

Evidence

The decline of competitive markets and the movement toward totalitarian control of society are not inevitable. They are the result mainly of mistaken beliefs about the appropriate means for securing a free and prosperous society and the policies based on these beliefs. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 133

Categorization

• XREF: Frames the Mont Pèlerin Society’s founding premise — that ideas, not iron laws, drive political order — which connects to the broader intellectual-history argument of this book and to Mirowski/Plehwe’s account of the network’s self-understanding. — connects to: Neoliberal thinkers repeatedly countenanced dictators as the lesser evil — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 905; An ideology becomes totalitarian only when its total validity is taken seriously — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1028
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 133

Broader Connections

• An ideology becomes totalitarian only when its total validity is taken seriously #corroborates (0.85) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1028