Economic crises supposedly serve as artillery breaching enemy defences and rallying revolutionary troops

Evidence

Naturally the effects of immediate economic factors in historical science are held to be far more complex than the effects of heavy artillery in a war of manoeuvre, since they are conceived of as having a double effect: 1. they breach the enemy’s defences, after throwing him into disarray and causing him to lose faith in himself, his forces, and his future; 2. in a flash they organise one’s own troops and create the necessary cadres—or at least in a flash they put the existing cadres (formed, until that moment, by the general historical process) in positions which enable them to encadre one’s scattered forces; 3. in a flash they bring about the necessary ideological concentration on the common objective to be achieved. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 889

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains the ‘war of manoeuvre’ model of revolution as theorized by Rosa Luxembourg: crisis-as-artillery.
• XREF: connects to: A government can manufacture crisis to construct its own people as enemy — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 111; Mature civil society resists economic crises like trench systems resist artillery — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 892; A revolutionary crisis needs a vanguard party already formed to exploit it
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: A government can manufacture crisis to construct its own people as enemy — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 111; Mature civil society resists economic crises like trench systems resist artillery — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 892; A revolutionary crisis needs a vanguard party already formed to exploit it