Structural social problems arise from non-politicized power, not overthrow of rulers

Evidence

So the problem regarding the structure of society does not in any way lie simply in occasionally overcoming the ruling upper echelons of the political system – societies have usually survived that well, because social power, as a threat to the political system, must of course change itself into political power. The problem lies elsewhere – in not being able to eliminate power from non-political interactions, in limiting the functional specification of other areas of society to purely personal love, rational production and pure exchange, and purely educational work. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 769

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s thesis: the danger for Stevens is not overthrowing the institutional hierarchy but the power diffuse throughout his personal role — his ‘love’ and ‘work’ being channeled through the institution rather than standing independently. — connects to: Contemporary power struggles now turn on engineered behavior modification, not class relations — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 969; Repression stems from economic power structure, not from schooling — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 571