Wartime state intervention first breached private property’s formerly absolute claims

Evidence

In sum, in all the ways discussed above— from industrial production to land cultivation and pricefi xing— the British and Italian states barged into the realm of the economic. For the fi rst time, capitalism witnessed a threat to the inviolability of private property. Private property had to subordinate its prerogatives to a political and national interest and even to people’s basic needs. In this way the state shook one of the supposedly unshakeable pillars of capital accumulation. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 149

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to Mattei’s core thesis that postwar austerity was a restoration of this breached capital order; also echoes Polanyi’s double movement. — connects to: Wartime state intervention forced private property to bow to national-interest priorities — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 149; World War I dissolved the public-private boundary that protected capitalist property — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 112; Postwar social reforms repoliticized private property and wages that war had decoupled from markets — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 224 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Wartime state intervention forced private property to bow to national-interest priorities #corroborates (1.00) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 149
• World War I dissolved the public-private boundary that protected capitalist property #expands (0.90) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 112
• State intervention during wartime made capitalist exploitation overtly political and vulnerable to resistance #expands (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 173
• State wartime intervention exposed the natural order of capitalism as a political choice #expands (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 169
• Wartime state intervention exposed market arrangements as political choices, not natural facts #corroborates (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 34
• State intervention made capitalist exploitation political and thereby threatened capitalism itself #expands (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 173
• Italian state expropriated industrial patents and plants during wartime #exemplifies (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 136
• Postwar social reforms repoliticized private property and wages that war had decoupled from markets #expands (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 224
• Government wartime economic policy revealed state as instrument of class domination #qualifies (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 204