Structural Power Quotes

“No government could last more than a month without having to knock on the door of the banks in order to pay its current expenses. If the banks were to refuse, the government would go bankrupt.”
― Ernest Mandel, The Marxist Theory of the State

“I want to deconstruct the structural power of a system that marked me out as different. I don't wish to be assimilated into the status quo, I want to be liberated from all negative assumptions that my characteristics bring. The onus is not on me to change. Instead, it's the world around me.”
― Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

“Power does not fall when it is fought. It dies when it is no longer needed.”
― pierre lagrenat, UNREACHABLE: Why Politics Was Never the Problem and Participation Was Always the Trap