state capacity
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The Ideological Architecture of the Free Market Myth and the Material Realities of State-Enforced Capital Accumulation
Class Power, Institutional Coercion, and the Dialectical Deconstruction of Market Neutrality in International Political Economy General Article | August 2026 The conventional framing of the global economic order around principles of unencumbered market exchange systematically disguises the coercive mechanisms that sustain contemporary capital accumulation. Liberal economic theory relies upon an abstract idealisation of market dynamics… Continue reading
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System Disruption as Strategy: Trump’s Infrastructure Warfare on Iran
The Evolution of Targeting in the Iran Campaign From Military Objectives to Civil Networks A strike on the B1 Bridge along the Tehran-Karaj northern bypass marks a documented expansion of targeting into civilian infrastructure with no established military function. The structure formed part of a major urban transport project designed to ease congestion across a… Continue reading
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