“The transition to the market” and similar nonsense have spawned strange notions that the market requires some special “market behavior” to function. Usually this means ordinary mercantilism and the dumb “lust for money.” But in fact, any behavior is “market” behavior. You can sell apples from your summer cottage, give them away, or leave them hanging on the tree. Any of these choices are “accounted for” by the market. We are all participants in this process, regardless of how we feel about it and whether we’re even aware it exists. The only condition that follows quite obviously from all this is that your actions must be free. The absence of personal freedom is the first and most radical interference in the market.
Therefore, all the chatter about “economic” and “political” freedoms is empty hot air. Freedom is singular; it is created by law that “opens up” during market activity. It is equally obvious that there are no fully free or unfree systems—it is always a matter of some degree of freedom. At the very least, we can definitely say that freedom and the market are things necessary to each other. Discussions about how “the market was introduced” here and there using police measures may coincide with historical facts, but this does not mean that police measures are necessary for the existence of the market.