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.

XREF: Connects to critiques of capital accumulation and political economy (e.g., Marx, degrowth literature), positioning the economic system as structurally self-destructive rather than merely flawed.

Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, loc. 68