Contemporary revolutions increasingly empower warlord governments rather than consent-based regimes

Evidence

On balance, these changing revolutionary processes give democrats and capitalists plenty of room for worry. They increase the possibility that twenty-first-century revolutions will bring to power warlords who rely on criminal activity and resource monopolies rather than popular consent for the viability of their governments; that new rulers will fail to establish regimes in collaboration with their citizens; that their citizens will remain poor as rulers enrich themselves; and that their low-capacity, nondemocratic regimes will remain vulnerable to challenge from the next contraband-wielding military entrepreneur that comes along. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1111

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘warlord vs. popular consent’ contrast bears on the reader’s home article about sacrifice and legitimacy — rulers who rule by resource monopoly rather than sacrifice or consent invert that logic. — connects to: Political parties can be underwritten by warlords running local protection rackets — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 592; Dominant authoritarians migrating through leftist movements skew revolutions toward dictatorship; Warlords believed they could manipulate outside intervention to their advantage — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 630 (+8 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1111

Broader Connections

• Structureless populations make revolutions easy to win but hard to secure #expands (0.82)
• Coercive government power depends on voluntary cooperation from many #complicates (0.80)
• Effective revolutionary parties unite force with consent dialectically #complicates (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 595
• Revolutionary strategy unites the moments of force and consent dialectically. #complicates (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2183
• Warlords believed they could manipulate outside intervention to their advantage #exemplifies (0.74) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 630
• Totalitarian regimes maintain an ostensible façade government alongside real power structures #exemplifies (0.73) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 905
• A revolution combines a divided regime with a shift to new rulers #qualifies (0.73) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 969
• Dominant authoritarians migrating through leftist movements skew revolutions toward dictatorship #corroborates (0.72)
• Coercive State power can progressively wither into regulated civil society #complicates (0.72)
• Freedom as non-domination requires embracing state power rather than fearing it #complicates (0.71) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 389