If the government doesn't intervene, there's no control, so sellers can do whatever they please. Hence price fixing, dumping, monopolies, etc., are all possible in a free market. There's no contradiction.
> [If] price is not set by supply and demand, [...] you do not have a free market
You can't even define what "set by supply and demand" means. Supply and demand are variables in some equation that does not and cannot capture reality.
If the government doesn't intervene, there's no control, so sellers can do whatever they please. Hence price fixing, dumping, monopolies, etc., are all possible in a free market. There's no contradiction.
> [If] price is not set by supply and demand, [...] you do not have a free market
You can't even define what "set by supply and demand" means. Supply and demand are variables in some equation that does not and cannot capture reality.