State intervention to save capitalism exposed its supposedly natural order as political

Evidence

The political scope of these upheavals was terrifying. Paradoxically, to promote capital accumulation, the state intervened with maneuvers so extraordinary that they overturned the social consensus on which the system rested: the idea that it was a spontaneous, untouchable, and natural order. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 169

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds directly into the reader’s key concept of ‘the invisible order’ — capitalism requiring arrangements to appear natural rather than political choice. — connects to: Late-capitalist state intervention destroys traditions and cannot offset the loss indefinitely — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2713; WWI’s state economic control revealed the economy’s inherent political nature; State intervention during wartime made capitalist exploitation overtly political and vulnerable to resistance — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 173 (+10 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The core paradox central to Mattei’s whole thesis: the state’s rescue of capitalism dissolves the naturalization that makes capitalism function.