Wartime state intervention exposed market arrangements as political choices, not natural facts

Evidence

State interventionism not only allowed the Allies to win the war; it also made clear that wage relations and the privatization of production— far from being “natural”— were political choices of a classminded society. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 34

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to later-century ‘there is no alternative’ neoliberalism arguments and to Polanyi’s double movement; also directly relevant to the reader’s austerity-as-class-weapon reading purpose. — connects to: Markets are political projects, not natural outcomes of state removal — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 266; State intervention during wartime made capitalist exploitation overtly political and vulnerable to resistance — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 173; State wartime intervention exposed the natural order of capitalism as a political choice — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 169 (+18 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that revelation of contingency (‘not natural’) is itself a political threat — the mere visibility of state planning as a working alternative destabilizes capitalist inevitability — is a load-bearing idea for the whole book.

Broader Connections

• State intervention to save capitalism exposed its supposedly natural order as political #expands (0.95) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 169
• Wartime state control proved economies are politically moldable #corroborates (0.90) — Gary Mongiovi, Austerity Is an Antidemocratic Strategy…, 29
• WWI’s state economic control revealed the economy’s inherent political nature #exemplifies (0.90)
• Market economies require deliberate political construction, not natural emergence #expands (0.90) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 364
• Wartime state intervention forced private property to bow to national-interest priorities #exemplifies (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 149
• State intervention made capitalist exploitation political and thereby threatened capitalism itself #expands (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 173
• War exposed the market’s self-regulating capacity as inadequate for total production #expands (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 106
• State control of labor made capitalist surplus extraction explicitly political during the war #exemplifies (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 186