Repression fails to suppress mobilization and can even accelerate it

Evidence

The government detained thousands of suspects without trial. Despite the state of emergency, despite banning of many community organizations, and despite preventive detention of activists by the thousands, black mobilization actually accelerated during the later 1980s. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 578

Categorization

• XREF: Repression-accelerates-mobilization finding connects to McAdam/Tarrow/Soule and classic backlash literature; bears on whether coercive capacity short-circuits contention as Tilly’s regime typology might imply. — connects to: Mass repression atomizes a crowd into isolated individuals focused only on survival — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 36; Severe repression can accelerate the very mobilization it targets. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 578; Modern repression operates from strength through efficiency, not through terror — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 84 (+8 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 578

Broader Connections

• Severe repression can accelerate the very mobilization it targets. #corroborates (0.98) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 578
• Repression threatening challenger survival produces resistance, not demobilization. #corroborates (0.94) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 662
• Indiscriminate repression by weak militarized states breeds revolutionary movements. #exemplifies (0.88)
• Government repression can push fringe individuals into violent opposition by blocking legitimate paths #exemplifies (0.86) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4129
• Repression drives nonviolent movements to armed rebellion #exemplifies (0.85) — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 32
• Protest success produces a far deeper subsequent crash when repression follows #expands (0.82)
• Civil society makes state repression livable yet also feeds resistance to it #exemplifies (0.80)
• Modern repression operates from strength through efficiency, not through terror #qualifies (0.78) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 84
• Overemphasizing resistance can belittle the real costs of oppression #qualifies (0.76) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 119