State wartime intervention exposed the natural order of capitalism as a political choice

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. At that critical juncture, the state opened economic analysis to political discussion. Policies cementing private ownership of the means of production and wage relations were now debatable. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 169

Categorization

• XREF: Core of the book’s thesis — ‘neoliberalism is a political project’ — grounded here in how state action denaturalized the market order. — connects to: 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; State intervention to save capitalism exposed its supposedly natural order as political — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 169 (+19 more)

Broader Connections

• Wartime state intervention exposed market arrangements as political choices, not natural facts #corroborates (1.00) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 34
• State intervention to save capitalism exposed its supposedly natural order as political #corroborates (0.98) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 169
• State intervention made capitalist exploitation political and thereby threatened capitalism itself #expands (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 173
• Wartime state control proved economies are politically moldable #expands (0.85) — Gary Mongiovi, Austerity Is an Antidemocratic Strategy…, 29
• State control of labor made capitalist surplus extraction explicitly political during the war #expands (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 186
• Government wartime economic policy revealed state as instrument of class domination #qualifies (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 204
• Fascist state intervention in the private sector served capitalist interests, not state power #qualifies (0.72) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1713
• A distinct managerial class merged government and corporate power within capitalism #complicates (0.70) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 902