Government wartime economic policy revealed state as instrument of class domination
Evidence
As embattled British labor leaders would declaim, the government was “compelled to drop its mask of impartiality and appear in its true character as an instrument of class domination” (Gallacher and Campbell 1972, 6). — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 204
Categorization
- XREF: Resonates with the reader’s thesis on austerity as class weapon — the state’s ‘mask of impartiality’ being dropped prefigures the postwar class discipline Mattei documents. Also echoes Gramsci’s hegemony. — connects to: WWI’s state economic control revealed the economy’s inherent political nature; State wartime intervention exposed the natural order of capitalism as a political choice — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 169; World War I dissolved the public-private boundary that protected capitalist property — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 112 (+12 more)
Broader Connections
- Wartime state control proved economies are politically moldable
#expands(0.82) — Gary Mongiovi, Austerity Is an Antidemocratic Strategy…, 29 - State wartime intervention fused economic and political labor struggles.
#expands(0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 374 - State discipline, not wages, resolved wartime labor scarcity for capital
#exemplifies(0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 171 - State control of labor made capitalist surplus extraction explicitly political during the war
#exemplifies(0.78) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 186 - War forced comprehensive state economic control that outperformed laissez-faire.
#corroborates(0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 168 - States are capitalist by structural position, not class composition
#qualifies(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1666 - Wartime state intervention exposed market arrangements as political choices, not natural facts
#expands(0.74) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 34