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In Britain, the mass impoverishment created in the early days of the Industrial Revolution threatened to destabilise the country, and social tensions seemed certain to erupt into class war. Britain’s ruling class realised that the colonial project promised a way of temporarily relieving some of these tensions without requiring them to relinquish any of their power.
Parsons criticized Wright Mills for interpreting power ‘exclusively as a facility for getting what one group, the holders of power, wants by preventing another group, the “outs”, from getting what it wants’, rather than seeing it as ‘a facility for the performance of function in and on behalf of the society as a system’ (Parsons 1957: 139).
Power: A Radical View
Steven Lukes
Whatever follows next in the crisis will inevitably spring from this fundamental condition: the obduracy of business as usual; its extreme inertia in the face of consequences; the practical refusal to heed the calls to stand down or even just moderate a little bit.
Overshoot
Wim Carton, Andreas Malm
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