Passive revolution is the political form of a war of position

Evidence

“Should we turn the expression around, then, and say that politics is war pursued by other means? H we still wish to maintain a separation between war and politics, perhaps we should postulate rather that this multiplicity of force relations can be coded— in part but never totally—either in the form of ‘war’ or in the forms of ‘politics’; this would imply two different strategies (but the one always liable to switch into the other) for integrating these unbalanced, heterogeneous, uastable, and tense force relations."" wa — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 296 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Passive revolution denotes either revolution without masses or molecular hidden change; A passive revolution occurs when a state leads instead of a social group; Gramsci applies passive revolution to the fascist regime itself (+6 more)

Related

• War of position replaced war of movement in modern democratic politics (similarity 0.89)
• The overall balance of forces imposes the form of war (similarity 0.88)
• War and politics are two codings of the same force relations (similarity 0.87)
• Gramsci distinguishes one-off ‘war of manoeuvre’ from long-term ‘war of position’ (similarity 0.80)
• Political movements should be analyzed via mass content and balance of forces (similarity 0.78)
• A state can substitute for a leading class in a passive revolution (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• War of position replaced war of movement in modern democratic politics #expands (0.90)
• The overall balance of forces imposes the form of war #corroborates (0.80)
• War and politics are two codings of the same force relations #corroborates (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 296
• Political will works through existing forces to create a new equilibrium #expands (0.75)