Commodity wealth converts revolutionary movements into profiteers or strengthens them depending on discipline

Evidence

In some cases (Chechnya, Liberia, and Colombia come to mind) the exchange became so easy and lucrative that putative revolutionaries gave up serious attempts to seize central power in favor of profiteering. … Yet elsewhere (as Angola’s history illustrates), disciplined revolutionar- ies used similar resources to seize power and destroy their enemies. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1106

Categorization

• QUESTION: What distinguishes profiteering rebels (Chechnya, Liberia, Colombia) from state-seizing disciplined ones (Angola)? Tilly gestures at ‘discipline’ but does not specify its sources — this is exactly where his framework would need extension.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1106
• XREF: connects to: Capitalism commodities liberatory movements into products the privileged can consume. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 152; Material forces of production determine the superstructure and drive social revolutions; The same slaveholding institution signals prosperity or stagnation by local context — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2319

Broader Connections

• Material forces of production determine the superstructure and drive social revolutions #qualifies (0.72)
• The same slaveholding institution signals prosperity or stagnation by local context #qualifies (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2319