Old ruling forces granted concessions only to gain time for counter-attack

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

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Institutions forcibly retake space surrendered in earlier concessions to protesters; Relentless press attacks wore down resistant authorities into partial concessions — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 185; Timely reforms welcomed become concessions interpreted as weakness under threat (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Institutions forcibly retake space surrendered in earlier concessions to protesters; Relentless press attacks wore down resistant authorities into partial concessions — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 185; Timely reforms welcomed become concessions interpreted as weakness under threat (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Timely reforms welcomed become concessions interpreted as weakness under threat #complicates (0.75)