Institutions forcibly retake space surrendered in earlier concessions to protesters

Evidence

The old forces did not wish to concede anything, and if they did concede anything they did it with the intention of gaining time and preparing a counter-offensive. The Third Estate would have fallen into these successive “pitfalls” without th e energetic action of the Jacobins, who opposed every “intermediate” halt in the revolutionary process, and sent to the guillotine not only the elements of the old society which was hard a-dying, but also the revolutionaries of yesterday-today become reactionaries. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 473 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Civil disobedience reveals institutional power as contingent and disruptable; Old ruling forces granted concessions only to gain time for counter-attack — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 473; Mass protest wins tactical concessions while structural demands remain unmet — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 278 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Old ruling forces granted concessions only to gain time for counter-attack #corroborates (0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 473