Might determines the terms of political and historical possibility, not just outcomes

Evidence

But as duplicitous and dirty-handed as the Palestinian patriarch turned out, and however rhetorically insistent concerning Israel’s denial and demise, it is a whole lot more difficult, it would seem, to activate denial of the existence of one whose semi-automatic is at your nose than it is to insist that a stateless people, a nation of refugees from – while on – its own land, has no rights. It is not that might makes right in this case, if any; it is that might manufactures the conditions and parameters, the terms, of political, and by extension historical and representational, possibility. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 573 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ideas, not vested interests, ultimately shape political possibility. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 136; Might manufactures the terms of political possibility rather than merely being right — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 573; The scope of political analysis determines whether change seems possible — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 730 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Might manufactures the terms of political possibility rather than merely being right #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 573