It’s so obnoxious because all states that have legal markets (i.e. all states) make use of them to some set of ends. Are they seriously going to say America doesn’t “utilize capitalism and market systems to achieve the ends of the state”? Do they not listen to what American government officials talk about all day? Because genuinely most of it is that.

But perhaps even worse is of course them not differentiating the ends of the state or how those ends are determined, as others have noted.