This is not too hard to believe because Karl Marx praised the 19th century USA as the place he hoped the socialist revolution would take hold and flourish in a best case scenario.
The neocons did abandon planned economics but held onto the idea of the USA should be a big govt in terms of military planning and as a security state. The Military Industrial Complex form of socialism. This Military Industrial Complex is to be used to bring about a some sort of Pax Americana. The neocons don't like any notion of independent regional powers, even of they are not hostile to the USA and are democracies. All nations need to be brought to heel as client states of the neocon US empire in order to fulfill the globalist revolution.
There are other globalists out there like the UN globalists - the neocons are just one subgroup of this thinking.
You are smarter than the average bear or Trumpinator, as the case may be.