Röpke condemned the Mont Pèlerin Society’s internal power struggles in 1960s

Evidence

Just so we don’t lose sight of Mont Pèlerin here, it is striking to observe that the German neoliberal Wilhelm Röpke made essentially the same observation about that organization forty-five years earlier: “To me, there is something so regrettable that verges on the crudely humorous, that a Society organized to further the search for the principles of a voluntary society of free men, should become rocked to its very roots by a contest for power” (quoted in Hartwell 1995, 123). — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2160

Categorization

• SHARE: A good line for anyone interested in the Mont Pèlerin Society’s internal politics — Röpke’s wry irony about a voluntary society torn by office-seeking.
• XREF: connects to: Bitter internal factionalism nearly destroyed the Mont Pèlerin Society. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 345; Organizational power struggles shaped which factions of the Mont Pèlerin network rose — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 335

Broader Connections

• Organizational power struggles shaped which factions of the Mont Pèlerin network rose #corroborates (0.75) — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 335