Every form of property depends on State intervention throughout economic life

Evidence

Spirito refuses to recognise that, since every form of property is linked to the State, even for the classical economists the latter intervenes at every moment of economic life—which is a continuous web of transfers of property. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1010

Categorization

• QUESTION: Gramci asserting that even classical economists conceded State intervention in property transfers — worth verifying the textual basis for this counterintuitive claim.