2011 uprisings crossed continents through imitation of tactics and solidarity

Evidence

Back in Brazil, members of the Movimento Passe Livre paid close attention to their comrades in Chile, and they naturally sympathized with the latter group. They favored the more “autonomous” forces that gained influence as the year wore on. Several members of the MPL went to meet with protesters in Santiago and came back to São Paulo with a manual for training students in the art of contention. But Piñera and the rest of the Chilean state stood stubbornly in the way of radical change. As the demonstrations dragged well into 2012, it became clear that despite the largest protests since the fall of the dictatorship, no major victories were imminent. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 279 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Neglecting, or worse still despising, so-called “spontaneous” movements, i.e. failing to give them a conscious leadership or to raise them to a higher plane by inserting them into politics, may often have extremely serious consequences. It is almost always the case that a “spontaneous” movement of the subaltern classes is accompanied by a reactionary movement of the right-wing of the dominant class, for concomitant reasons. An economic crisis, for instance, engenders on the one hand discontent among the subaltern classes and spontaneous mass movements, and on the other conspiracies among the reactionary groups, who take advantage of the objective weakening of the government in order to attempt coups d’etat . Among the effective causes of the coups must be included the failure of the responsible groups to give any conscious leadership to the spontaneous revolts or to make them into a positive political factor. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 808 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Foreign protest frames shaped how Brazilians interpreted their own uprising — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 45; Tactics and organizers traveled between South American protest movements — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 279; 2011 mass protests shared tactics across continents against the global 1 percent. (+15 more)

Broader Connections

• Transnational protest movements traded strategies and replaced pity with solidarity #expands (1.00)
• Protest tactics and manuals diffused between Latin American movements across borders #exemplifies (1.00) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 279
• Unled spontaneous revolts invite reactionary counter-movements and coups #complicates (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 808
• Globalized protest follows the same two-century-old demonstration routines #complicates (0.75) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1269
• Social movements convert existing cultural frames into local meanings enabling organized violence #complicates (0.75) — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 1005
• Revolts can strip institutions of objective force while raising efficiency and solidarity #complicates (0.75)