Laissez-faire is itself a form of deliberate state regulation.

Evidence

Thus it is asserted that economic activity belongs to civil society, and that the State must not intervene to regulate it. But since in actual reality civil society and State are one and the same, it must be made clear that laissez-faire too is a form of State “regulation”, introduced and maintained by legislative and coercive means. It is a deliberate policy, conscious of its own ends, and not the spontaneous, automatic expression of economic facts. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 701

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• XREF: Core to the toolkit: civil society/State unity undergirds how later readings treat ‘neutral’ market framings of Islamophobia as political.

Related

• Laissez-faire is itself a form of state regulation, not an absence of it (similarity 0.94)
• The liberal state, defined by economic individualism, generates monopoly concentration on its own. (similarity 0.80)
• Liberal state forms are prerequisites for Americanised industrial monopoly (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• The liberal state, defined by economic individualism, generates monopoly concentration on its own. #complicates (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1091