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How much of the political spectrum is neoliberal (and under the Svengali influence of the @MontPelerinSoc)?
06 Oct 2014 1 Comment
in liberalism Tags: conspiracy theories, Eric Crampton, intellectuals, Leftover Left, Mont Pelerin Society, neoliberalism, progressive left, Thomas Sowell, Twitter left
When I feud with strangers on other blogs about neoliberalism, I often asked them is to nominate which parties are neoliberal. Obviously the right-wing parties are neoliberal.
What is routine, however, is for this remnant of the Left over Left to nominate the Labour Party as a cauldron of neoliberalism as well. Tony Blair, Bob Hawke, and Paul Keating are hate figures as is Roger Douglas in New Zealand.
Neoliberalism is more about smearing labour parties than the right-wing parties, and, in particular, factional enemies further to the right with you on the old Left. Looks like to be a neoliberal is what it was like to be a capitalist running dog in the days of the cultural revolution.
These days it’s quite common to nominate the Mont Pelerin Society as the global ringmaster of neoliberalism.
As global ringmasters go, they have a crap website. The super profits of supreme power should at least extend to a decent website.
Eric Crampton was tweeting live from his first meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society a few weeks ago. I asked him how did it feel to be in the inner circles of supreme power. His tweet was they must hold all the conspiratorial meetings in side rooms because he did not feel any more powerful than the previous day at his desk at his University
No one had ever heard of the Mont Pelerin society until the Twitter Left put it at the centre of a global conspiracy.
It is much easier to do to explain your defeat at elections on a conspiracy, rather than on your ideas having been tried and failed time and again.
These allegations of a secret conspiracy led by the Mont Pelerin society is a rarity in the stock and fair of conspiracy theories. The leader of the conspiracy is actually unknown. Most conspiracy theories allege that the secret machinations are by relatively well-known people you are trying to smear or don’t like.
These allegations of a global conspiracy led by academics is the ultimate ego trip by proxy. Academics dream of supreme power. When they do not have this power themselves, they fantasise that the right-wingers at the other end of the corridor at their university have it instead.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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