The American right’s rise depended on an international intellectual community

Evidence

Moreover, the relationship between the MPS and business conservatives suggests the important and often unrecognized role that international thinkers played in the rise of the American right. The conservative movement in the United States is often thought to reflect a distinctly American set of individualistic values and a uniquely American antipathy to powerful central governments. But the history of the MPS and its interactions with the business right indicates that the ascendance of free market ideology cannot be understood solely as an American phenomenon, for it grew in tandem with the development of an international community of economists, political scientists, and other academics committed to the vision of dismantling the welfare state and reconfiguring society to allow the market greater freedom. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1443

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges the nationalist narrative of American conservatism; connects to Philip Mirowski and Dieter Plehwe’s argument that neoliberalism is a transnational political project rather than an American invention. — connects to: Cross-national organizations function as international intellectuals mediating between extremes — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 764; Global structures enabled ideological community for marginalized intellectual movements — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 147; Neoliberal intellectuals formed a thought collective as a unit — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 10 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism rose to hegemony through transnational networks of scholars and allies #corroborates (0.95) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 81
• Global structures enabled ideological community for marginalized intellectual movements #corroborates (0.85) — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 147
• Neoliberal intellectuals formed a thought collective as a unit #corroborates (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 10
• Cross-national organizations function as international intellectuals mediating between extremes #corroborates (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 764
• Capitalist circuits can produce internationalism that mimics the Left’s #corroborates (0.72) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 74
• The Right’s rise depends structurally on the Left’s failure in power. #complicates (0.70)