In fact, the state— in its role as eliminator of expenditures— was a fundamental precondition to reconstruct the material (and ideological) conditions necessary for the divide between the economic and the political domains to regain its hold. Clearly the very withdrawal of the state from the realm of economic interventions was a drastic and heft y political decision, but it was nonetheless justifi ed as apolitical and economically necessary— a process guided by technical reason, thus fundamentally uncontroversial.

Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, loc. 747