Hutt’s opposition to universal suffrage in Southern Africa was shared by some ­others in the neoliberal camp. In 1970 Shenfield invoked “the hideous dangers of totalitarian democracy” as he argued that “the limitation of the franchise in South African circumstances is not only not wrong; it is positively desirable in the interests of all races.” “In South Africa,” he wrote, “ ‘one man one vote’ would mean disaster for all. Similar sentiments came from journalist John A. Davenport, formerly of Fortune and Barron’s, and Milton Friedman.

Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, loc. 578