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https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1888/free-trade/

Here, when Marx supports free trade, he does it because of the natural contradictions in capitalist society. What free trade allows, is that countries in the first world will happily accept your cheap work force and provide certain degrees of amicability towards you, which at the same time creates a process of deindustrialisation in first world countries because most of manufacturing is driven towards this third world nations. You can see this is the tactic China adopted and which has succeeded, the West nowadays is largely dependent on third world countries to fulfill its needs, either be it from India, China, Russia or Latin America, this relation of dependence is what makes it harder for other countries to invade you or excerpt blockades, and which also help to form relations with other countries in similar scenarios, as BRICS is an example. I'm not saying Marx predicted all of this because in that case he would have magic powers, but there is no other way to interpret the support for free trade, understanding it in the sense of liberal economics, under a Marxist lenses. It's essentially using capitalist tools and understanding the nature of capitalism, to accelerate its downfall.