Market ideology functions to repress freedom rather than secure it

Evidence

The market is thus Leviathan in sheep’s clothing: its function is not to encourage and perpetuate freedom (let alone freedom of a political variety) but rather to repress it; and about such visions, indeed, one may revive the slogans of the existential years — the fear of freedom, the Right from freedom. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 600

Categorization

• APHORISMS: ‘Leviathan in sheep’s clothing’ is a compact, memorable formulation of how the market’s promised liberty conceals its disciplinary repressive role.
• XREF: connects to: Consumer-capitalist integration threatens rather than benefits individual freedom. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 7; Freedom must be conceived negatively as freedom from the economy — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 112; Economic ideas can blind policymakers to the flaws of their institutional designs — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 252 (+23 more)