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Originally Posted by Tipsy  Thus, whoever controls the limited means we have to meet our ends has to decide which ends are satisfied and which are not. This decision sets which values are rated higher and which are rated lower and essentially sets what we should believe. |
You will have to demonstrate that control over the economy (means of productions, trade, finance) correlate with a control over an individual's social freedom. You can partly understand individuals as economical agents, but they are much more than that, they act in other dimensions of society. So how does controling individuals as economical agents allow you to control them when they act as agents in other aspect of society?
Secondly, in a truly liberal free market, people may freely trade what they can, but they can't trade on equal footing. This inequality between economical agents allow the most powerfull to exploit and significantly curb the freedom of less powerfull economical agents. Thus you're liberal economy is only a children's playground without rules to regulate the behavior of bullies.