Postwar American business elites feared liberalism more than Soviet communism

Evidence

Following this dramatic year, which saw not only the advent of the Cold War but the largest strike wave in American history, Crane quickly became active in a variety of organizations, all of which were dedicated to the general proposition that liberalism, even more than Soviet communism, was the gravest danger facing the United States in the postwar period. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1446

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing how widely shared this view of liberalism-as-greater-threat was beyond Crane.
• XREF: connects to: American capitalism secretly adopted Soviet centralized planning principles in the 1960s. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 158; Business elites organized against labor via church infiltration after World War II — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1446; American intellectuals feared anticommunism itself more than communism in the early Cold War — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 433 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• American intellectuals feared anticommunism itself more than communism in the early Cold War #complicates (0.82) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 433