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In 1895, for example, France invaded Madagascar, disbanded the government of then–Queen Ranavalona III, and declared the country a French colony.
structural transformation requires applying pressure everywhere in the system, i.e. boundary-pushing in all social roles. Second, it is everyone’s job to fight injustice because it is already their job to perform their roles well. In other words, it is one's job not just to be a teacher, but to be a good teacher. This second justification is particularly important for individuals who do not feel the force of injustice because they are personally unaffected by it, and who would otherwise try to reject the burden of structural transformation.
What Is My Role in Changing the System? A New Model of Responsibility for Structural Injustice
Robin Zheng
To understand the remarkable significance of the shift from a discourse of crisis and rejection of capitalism to one focused on inequality, we need instead to ask this: Why has inequality, which has always been a feature of market societies, suddenly become so disturbing, so much discussed? Or, as Harry Frankfurt presses us to ask, why do many people appear to be more distressed by the rich than by the poor? When so many other things have gone wrong in capitalist democracies (from ecological crisis to rise in suicide rates), even a dramatic increase in inequality should not be sufficient to place it at the center of public discontent. What is really at stake here?
Capitalism on Edge
Albena Azmanova;
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