Nonrevolutionary claim-making forms later become available as revolutionary instruments when repertoires diffuse

Evidence

Consider just two important examples of repertoire effects. Despite the fact that workers had struggled with their masters for centuries long before, once the strike took shape as a mainly nonrevolutionary form of claim-making during the nineteenth century, it became available as a mighty instrument of revolutionary action thereafter (Haimson and Sapelli 1992; Haimson and Tilly 1989; Shorter and Tilly 1974). The worldwide diffusion of cosmopolitan, modular, autonomous demonstrations as a consequence of nonrevolutionary social movement activity has made the demonstration available as a twenty-first-century revolutionary vehicle in a way that was inconceivable anywhere during the eighteenth century (Tartakowsky 1997, 2004, Tilly 2004a). — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 984

Categorization

• QUESTION: This is fertile for the reader’s asymmetry test: if institutionalized (constitutional-absorption) repertoires like the strike and demonstration later become revolutionary vehicles, does absorption actually defuse politicization or merely store it for later escalation?
• XREF: The claim that institutional absorption stores rather than defuses contention bears on the reader’s central question of whether rights regimes defuse subordinate-group politicization. — connects to: India domesticates the standard social-movement repertoire into parliament-oriented claim-making — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 522; Repertoire type shapes how revolutionary processes unfold even though neither type is inherently revolutionary — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 981; The new claim-making repertoire was less revolutionary than the old one — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 351 (+2 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 984

Broader Connections

• The new claim-making repertoire was less revolutionary than the old one #complicates (0.78) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 351
• New conceptions spread by rational form, authority, or organisational membership #expands (0.72) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1214