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state institutions (the military, in particular) appear to enjoy limitless autonomy, causal influence, and ontological primacy as the sole constitutive force in the political and social realm

they apprehend only parts of the whole — the variegated structural and institutional currents

With a past checkered with praetorian preeminence

the soporific blandness of "solutions"

what is remarkable about the market-democracy metaphor is its elision of an obvious fact of literal marketplaces: they are by definition unequal