Neoliberals feared colonial anti-imperialism would morph into anti-capitalism

Evidence

Writing during World War II, Mises predicted that the establishment of a United Nations would lead to autonomy for the people of Africa and Asia, but insisted that ‘there are today no such things as internal affairs of a country which do not concern the rest of mankind’. If anti-imperialism in the colonies developed into anti-capitalism, Mises and his fellow neoliberals believed, it would be a catastrophe for all of humanity. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 251

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s work on how global elites frame regime change and intervention in universalist terms — the ‘no internal affairs’ claim parallels humanitarian intervention justification. — connects to: Anti-colonial rights advocates unwittingly armed later coercive interventions in global capitalism’s interests — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 273; Neoliberal intellectuals saw Bandung as a resource against Western colonialism — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 275; Neoliberals opposed colonial state planning as a politicisation of the economy — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 240 (+9 more)
• SEED: Angle: how the universalist language of human rights was preemptively deployed by economists to foreclose anti-capitalist sovereignty movements.

Broader Connections

• Neoliberals argued that politicizing the economy, not capitalism, caused imperialism. #corroborates (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 434
• Neoliberal responses to anticolonialism mirrored liberal imperialist culturalist alibis. #expands (0.80) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 914
• Anti-colonial socialism can be re-cast as imperialist proletarian nationalism #qualifies (0.72) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 379