Replacing bad individuals cannot fix vices engendered by structure
Evidence
There are certainly conspiracies in capitalism, but the problem is that they are themselves only possible because of deeper level structures that allow them to function. Does anyone really think, for instance, that things would improve if we replaced the whole managerial and banking class with a whole new set of (‘better’) people? Surely, on the contrary, it is evident that the vices are engendered by the structure, and that while the structure remains, the vices will reproduce themselves. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 142
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Capital’s center is missing yet still posited as a responsible agent — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 138; Widespread service failures fail to unsettle faith in capitalist efficiency — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 131; Alternatives failing to address structures of domination cannot achieve abolition — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 286 (+5 more)
Related
- Corporate vices are engendered by structure, not by individuals (similarity 0.85)
- Widespread service failures fail to unsettle faith in capitalist efficiency (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Personal virtue cannot remedy injustice embedded in the situation itself
#corroborates(0.95) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1974 - Alternatives failing to address structures of domination cannot achieve abolition
#corroborates(0.92) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 286 - Self-determination cannot precede the abolition of exploitation
#corroborates(0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 227 - Affirming the colonized self via rupture cannot resolve psychological damage
#corroborates(0.78) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 106 - Group-level moral disengagement is an emergent property, not a sum of individual exonerations
#corroborates(0.75)