Their brand of radical liberalism required a "roll-back" of the post-war social democratic or welfare state, and the "roll-out" of new functions for the state (with new institutions) that would "purge the system of obstacles to the functioning of free markets" and make it incredibly difficult for people to rebuild the type of post-war society they were dismantling.
Source: Mbwakalisanahapa
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You’ve only never heard of them if you haven’t been paying attention.
[https://www.desmog.com/atlas-economic-research-foundation/](https://www.desmog.com/atlas-economic-research-foundation/)
[https://www.desmog.com/2023/09/12/atlas-network-vilifying-climate-protestors/](https://www.desmog.com/2023/09/12/atlas-network-vilifying-climate-protestors/)
The same network lobbied the government to change laws to jail climate protestors.
[https://www.desmog.com/2023/10/10/a-secretive-network-is-fighting-indigenous-rights-in-australia-and-canada-expert-says/](https://www.desmog.com/2023/10/10/a-secretive-network-is-fighting-indigenous-rights-in-australia-and-canada-expert-says/)
Relevant to the below.
[https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=bd0caf9f-313d-412e-8922-c8d29ee85607&subId=763162](https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=bd0caf9f-313d-412e-8922-c8d29ee85607&subId=763162)
From the PDF above.
“Coordinated across the Australian branches of the little-known Atlas Network, a global infrastructure of 500+ ‘think-tanks’ including the Centre for Independent Studies, the Institute of Public Affairs and LibertyWorks, I demonstrate that the No campaign shares the aims and methods of the longstanding Atlas disinformation campaign against climate policy”
I’d hardly call the atlas network ‘liberal’ in the present use of the word.
Another great article by Gareth Hutchens.
The name is taken from Atlas Shrugs by Ayn Rand, the darling of the right wing and crap novelist who died whilst on welfare