No social expediency may ever override complete intellectual freedom

Evidence

Political pressures have brought new and serious threats to the freedom of thought and science. Complete intellectual freedom is so essential to the fulfillment of our aims that no consideration of social expediency must ever be allowed to impair it. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 139

Categorization

• QUESTION: An absolute principle asserted in the MPS founding statement — worth probing how the actual network squared this with its funding sources and the practical politics it later pursued.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 139
• XREF: connects to: Social stability must never come at the cost of necessary change or social justice; Freedom of research must be preserved from subordination to cultural policy; Political freedom is impossible without economic freedom — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 407

Broader Connections

• Freedom of research must be preserved from subordination to cultural policy #exemplifies (0.85)
• Social stability must never come at the cost of necessary change or social justice #corroborates (0.80)
• Political freedom is impossible without economic freedom #expands (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 407