The concept of governmentality also proves to be useful in correcting the diagnosis of neo-liberalism as an expansion of economy in politics, that takes for granted the separation of state and market. The argument goes that there is some "pure” or “anarchic” economy that will be "regulated" or "civilised" by a political reaction of society. But as we know since Marx there is no market independent of the state, and economy is always political economy. The problem with this kind of critique is that it shares the (neo-) liberal programme of a separation between politics and economy. The perspective of governmentality makes possible the development of a dynamic form of analysis that does not limit itself to stating the" retreat of politics” or the" domination of the market" but deciphers the so-called" end of politics" itself as a political programme.