Do you think the fact that European manufacturing is evaporating at an unprecedented rate is simply "market forces" or some nonsense like that?
I mean, that IS the reason. Governments which represent interests of actors in a market economy (i.e. The bourgeois) know how to exploit and steer these to their own benefits.
Market mechanisms are also for example the reasoning given for sanctions etc. Like when a ship can't enter a US harbor for 6 months after trading with Cuba, why does the shipping company obey? Why, because they don't want to lose a more profitable route, or risk seeing their own income under direct attack for disobeying.
There is no invisible hand of the free market. The hands on the levers have names and addresses. That's my point. It's not just magic that comes out of thin air at the whims of some perfect X shaped supply and demand curve.
I mean, that IS the reason. Governments which represent interests of actors in a market economy (i.e. The bourgeois) know how to exploit and steer these to their own benefits.
Market mechanisms are also for example the reasoning given for sanctions etc. Like when a ship can't enter a US harbor for 6 months after trading with Cuba, why does the shipping company obey? Why, because they don't want to lose a more profitable route, or risk seeing their own income under direct attack for disobeying.
There is no invisible hand of the free market. The hands on the levers have names and addresses. That's my point. It's not just magic that comes out of thin air at the whims of some perfect X shaped supply and demand curve.