Yet what was condemned by contemporaries in the 1950s as a "fallacy of nineteenth-centuryism"—believing. [fact]
When in the years after 1945 neoliberals proposed a "good" ITO that would constrain national sovereignty and make investor rights stronger than civil rights, they were dismissed as dinosaurs or dreamers. Yet what was condemned by contemporaries in the 1950s as a "fallacy of nineteenth-centuryism"—believing the clock could be turned back to an earlier era—has become part of twenty-first-century reality.
Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, loc. 479