That neoliberalism tends to produce authoritarianism was a lesson learnt in the Global South long before the recent rise of right-wing authoritarianism in Europe and the United States. As the imposition of neoliberal reforms by international financial institutions eroded states' 'political capacity to govern', these same states often relied more heavily on repression in order to implement unpopular economic policies. In the postcolony, the 'crumbling' of the independence and sovereignty for which anticolonialists had fought subjected these states to the 'tutelage of international creditors', severing the ties between citizenship and rights to public services.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 452