Austerity architects saw their policies as objective necessity, not repression

Evidence

The economists of the time certainly did not view themselves as agents of repression. Rather, they considered austerity reforms as products of an objective reality, which could not be questioned. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 196

Categorization

• XREF: This is the ‘invisible order’ mechanics at the level of the enforcers’ self-understanding — naturalizing a political choice as objective fact, exactly the reader’s key concept.