Anti-colonial struggle deploys war of position, movement, and underground forms
Evidence
Thus India’s political struggle against the English (and to a certain extent that of Germany against France, or of Hungary against the Little Entente) knows three forms of war: war of movement, war of position, and underground warfare. Gandhi’s passive resistance is a war of position, which at certain moments becomes a war of movement, and at others underground warfare. Boycotts are a form of war of position, strikes of war of movement, the secret preparation of weapons and combat troops belongs to underground warfare. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 878
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Classifies the three forms of political struggle with concrete examples of each.
- XREF: Core scaffolding vocabulary — war of movement vs. war of position carries directly into how colonized/subaltern populations contest hegemony in later Islamophobia readings.