By Akracia – Fenikso Nigra
The economy is presented as a technical field, distant from everyday life, governed by numbers and specialists. This appearance of neutrality is not accidental — it is strategic. The economy decides who works too much and who rests too little, who faces deprivation and who accumulates without limit. There is nothing technical about deciding who lives with dignity and who must accept scarcity as destiny.
Interest rates, fiscal targets, spending cuts, inflation control — each of these decisions benefits some and harms others. When they say “there is no alternative,” they hide what matters most: there is always a choice. The real question is never whether an alternative exists, but who decides and in whose favor. The economy never asks what is fair; it asks what is profitable for those who already concentrate power.
Economic discourse turns human decisions into natural laws. Crises become inevitable, unemployment becomes a necessary adjustment, poverty becomes an acceptable side effect. In this way, no one appears responsible. Exploitation presents itself as mathematics, and inequality as a technical consequence — not as a deliberate project of wealth concentration.
Those who control the economy control the field of what is possible. What can be funded, what can be built, what can be guaranteed as a right. There are always resources to rescue banks, subsidize large corporations, and protect investors. To guarantee a dignified life, free time, and material security for the majority, they claim the budget does not allow it. But budgets reflect priorities — and priorities are political choices.
Politics appears to decide while the economy imposes the real limits. Governments change, rhetoric shifts, but certain priorities remain intact across administrations. The market is treated as a sensitive entity that must be reassured at any cost. People are instructed to adapt, tighten their belts, and wait for better days that never arrive.
The economy is not a space separate from politics — it is where politics reveals its most raw face. There, power does not promise; it executes. It does not ask for votes; it imposes conditions. It does not speak of citizenship; it demands productivity. It is in the economic terrain that the real hierarchies of a society are exposed.
Economic neutrality is the preferred language of power when it does not want to be questioned.
To question the economy is to question who decides, who profits, and who pays the price for these decisions. As long as we accept the economy as a neutral sphere, we will remain subjected to choices that shape our lives without our effective consent. There is no just economic management within a system built to concentrate power and wealth.
In struggle, we are dignified and free people.
