A quick note - @RichardJMurphy is right that the Mont Pelerin Society was the inauguration of neoliberalism's very successful post-WWII ideological machine. However, the ideas were developed in the 1920s, advocates were heavily funded by American trusts and their first meeting was in Paris in 1938. At first, more moderate speakers advocated a central role for governments as market regulators, but by the end it was obvious that the Mises-type extremists were to become a major influence. The takeaway resolutions were to hand over economic management to 'market forces' with minimal regulation and sever the potentially democratic relation between the majority and the state. The promises of Thiel, Yarvin, Karp et al. to crush the very idea of democracy and replace it with technofeudal control is a frantic last-ditch attempt to fulfil that second resolution on a new landscape as the neoliberal project collapses. academia.edu/82642613/The_Wa…