I'm not sure I would agree with a lot of what you say here, but nevertheless you bring a very important point that I think is chronically misunderstood, or over

I'm not sure I would agree with a lot of what you say here, but nevertheless you bring a very important point that I think is chronically misunderstood, or overlooked, about Marx's analysis. Free market is a crucial assumption in Marx's labour theory of value. It is the free market that drives commodity (exchange) values towards their labour value, which then drives the whole Marxist theory of capitalism forward.