Popper’s open-society ideal directly contradicted the MPS’s closed founding design

Evidence

Popper had just published The Open Society and Its Enemies in 1945, attacking Plato, Hegel, and Marx; he was already closely allied with Hayek, who would conspire to bring him to the LSE. Popper notoriously had argued that a regime of open criticism and dispute was the only correct path to political progress; this dovetailed with his influential characterization of science as an ongoing process of conjecture and refutation. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 194

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Popper’s falsificationism taught in philosophy of science; a nice irony of the MPS breaching its own most famous member’s precepts. — connects to: MPS members preferred stricter ideological policing over Popper’s open debate — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 196; Neoliberalism’s public rhetoric of open liberalism contradicted its actual closed, hierarchical organization — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 200

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism’s public rhetoric of open liberalism contradicted its actual closed, hierarchical organization #complicates (0.82) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 200