Repressive controls persist in fragments even after resistance tears them apart

Evidence

And yet even where reduced to tatters various strands of a repressive and domineering social fabric remain. These strands may be discrete, insecure, and far from firmly fixed in place, to be sure. Yet they remain at hand to be put in repressive play, mobilized as regimes find necessary to patch the condomizing social material where the counters and resistances have weakened the structures of control. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 484

Categorization

• QUESTION: What empirical evidence shows otherwise-defeated control regimes reconstituting in fragmented form? Worth tracing the Latin American examples this likely gestures to.
• XREF: connects to: the MOC “The Violence That Builds: How Modern Order Is Forged, Not Broken, by Force”