"Free Market" simply implies free of government intervention.
Government IS intervention, you can't separate the two. Even the most basic stuff like contract enforcement or adjudicating disputes or the concept of property rights itself requires a government to insulate individuals against each other's arbitrary definitions of "reasonableness".
I don't disagree. Some forms of intervention are better than others. In this case I think we're talking about industry regulations and the relationship between oligarchs and legislators. I was simply replying to your implication that someone desiring a "free market" believes in no hierarchies or people holding power over others.
But I would add that I think "our side" seizing the means of control and wielding the power of government against our opponents, especially some kind of third-position revolution, is also a pipedream.
Government IS intervention, you can't separate the two. Even the most basic stuff like contract enforcement or adjudicating disputes or the concept of property rights itself requires a government to insulate individuals against each other's arbitrary definitions of "reasonableness".
I don't disagree. Some forms of intervention are better than others. In this case I think we're talking about industry regulations and the relationship between oligarchs and legislators. I was simply replying to your implication that someone desiring a "free market" believes in no hierarchies or people holding power over others.
But I would add that I think "our side" seizing the means of control and wielding the power of government against our opponents, especially some kind of third-position revolution, is also a pipedream.