Indiscriminate repression by weak militarized states breeds revolutionary movements.

Evidence

In Kosovo, where seeds of the Bosnian genocide were planted, the Albanian-Serb conflict is on the verge of mass violence. After ten years of repression, some Albanians have abandoned the nonviolent resistance and joined an armed rebellion. Special Serbian police have carried out retaliatory atrocities, which have increased support by Albanians for armed resistance. … Father Sava offers a lonely and profound contrast to the Serbian Orthodox hierarchy and to Serbian police who praise Serbia’s crusade to protect Europe from Islam. The international community seems as indecisive over Kosovo in 1998 as it was over Bosnia in 1992? — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 32 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The form taken by the repression, both military and legal, gave a great impetus to the cause of Sardinian nationalism, and it was to this cause that Gramsci first adhered. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 40 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Both Böllinger and Knutson agree that the government often plays a critical role in pushing certain individuals into violent opposition. Government surveillance or persecution were factors in closing off the path to a positive identity for Busic, who encountered suspicious police in Yugoslavia, Austria, and the United States. In West Germany people who were only on the fringes of radical movements found their way back blocked by government records that marked them as sympathizers. Böllinger found, for example, that many of his interviewees had been harassed or, in one case, jailed for quite minor offenses. In the Basque region of Spain, in the Franco era, even cultural activities had to be clandestine because of government persecution. In the 19th century, the Russian government’s repression of nonviolent reformist activities was a factor in convincing a minority of activists that terrorism was their only mode of self-expression. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4129 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Low-capacity, nondemocratic regimes rely on military force against armed challengers — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 388; Escalating resistance met with legalized repression entrenches rather than contains mobilization. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 577; Severe repression can accelerate the very mobilization it targets. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 578 (+6 more)

Related

• Repression drives nonviolent movements to armed rebellion (similarity 0.84)
• Government repression can push fringe individuals into violent opposition by blocking legitimate paths (similarity 0.82)
• Severe repression can accelerate the very mobilization it targets. (similarity 0.82)
• Brutal state repression of a peasant revolt fueled regional nationalism (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Repression drives nonviolent movements to armed rebellion #corroborates (0.92) — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 32
• Brutal state repression of a peasant revolt fueled regional nationalism #exemplifies (0.90) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 40
• Government repression can push fringe individuals into violent opposition by blocking legitimate paths #corroborates (0.88) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4129
• Armed non-state groups emerge to replace states that abandon caretaking for pure repression #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 652
• Provoking state repression is the core mechanism of modern revolutionary terrorism #expands (0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 368
• A state can defuse revolution by restraining provocation and waiting out empty rhetoric. #contradicts (0.80)