Failed transitions of power end in class extermination or mutual ruin.

Evidence

If this process of development from one moment to the next is missing—and it is essentially a process which has as its actors men and their will and capability—the situation is not taken advantage of, and contradictory outcomes are possible: either the old society resists and ensures itself a breathing-space, by physically exterminating the elite of the rival class and terrorising its mass reserves; or a reciprocal destruction of the conflicting forces occurs, and a piece of the graveyard is established, perhaps even under the surveillance of a foreign guard. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 768

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: The ‘reciprocal destruction’ and ‘piece of the graveyard’ outcome maps forward to necropolitics binaries that later Islamophobia readings draw on.

Related

• Social change unfolds across escalating levels of relations of force (similarity 0.79)
• Modern state disintegration is worse than medieval because it lacks integrative forces (similarity 0.79)