Third World statism alarmed neoliberals even when Western politicians endorsed it.

Evidence

Decolonization, and concomitantly rising “Third Worldism,” continued to present enormous challenges to neoliberal perspectives. The revolutionary aspirations of the popular masses in the Third World, utopian egalitarianism, an emphasis on a strong and centralized state to accomplish development, and international alliances all combined with rhetorical commitments to transnational unions (pan-Arabism, pan-Africanism, etc.) in favor of regional integration and redistribution (Berger 2004, 34). At home, most neoliberals were worried about a disturbing willingness of leading politicians from both the right and the left to embrace expanded state management of the economy and foreign aid. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1295

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader concern with how the neoliberal network formed in reaction to post-1945 developmentalism.