Democratic politics cannot reform an economy structured to accumulate and break down barriers violently.

Evidence

Resources are limited. “The economy” is allocating them in ways antithetical to our very survival. Neither will “the political” be the realm in which this calamity is fixed. We can’t simply vote out a political economic system that is structured to accumulate and—more importantly—structured to break down, violently if necessary, any barriers to that accumulation. — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 68

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with the reader’s critical frame: whether political reform can hope to dismantle the financial apparatus the book traces.
• DEEPTHINKING: A compact thesis that an economic system is structurally organized around breaking down barriers to accumulation — a claim that undercuts reformist assumptions.