One of the continuing questions regarding neoliberalism is ­whether it is a proj­ect to restore class power or a coherent ideology. We have seen that it was both. In the years ­after 1945, neoliberals worked with and alongside the International Chamber of Commerce to defend the threatened privileges of a specific class. Their imagination, however, exceeded that of their partners. Their radicalism always bore the potential of taking on a life of its own. Even though they worked with organ­izations grounded in internationalism, the globalism of the neoliberals often tended ­toward a goal that their hosts (and funders) did not necessarily share.

Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, loc. 478