Despite these accusations, the LSF figures implicitly recognised that Third Worldism was what Kristin Ross has termed 'an aggressive new way of accusing the capitalist system' and the neo-imperialist relations that had succeeded formal colonialism. LSF constituted a similarly aggressive counterattack. Its disparate group of liberals, humanitarians, Atlanticists and Reaganites found unity in the rejection of 'Western guilt' over colonialism and opposition to Third Worldist demands for restructuring the international economic order. In doing so, they drew on themes developed by the neoliberals over the previous decades.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 395