Severe repression can accelerate the very mobilization it targets.
Evidence
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. Resistance combined with international pressure to shake up white control of public politics. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 578
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Security-force killings of activists triggered escalatory cycles of mourning and reprisal — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 603; Escalating resistance met with legalized repression entrenches rather than contains mobilization. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 577; Indiscriminate repression by weak militarized states breeds revolutionary movements. (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Repression drives nonviolent movements to armed rebellion
#corroborates(0.95) — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 32 - Government repression can push fringe individuals into violent opposition by blocking legitimate paths
#exemplifies(0.92) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4129 - Indiscriminate repression by weak militarized states breeds revolutionary movements.
#corroborates(0.90) - Terrorism aims to provoke state repression that radicalizes the population.
#exemplifies(0.90) - A fierce critic can inadvertently reinforce the very system he attacks.
#epitomizes(0.80) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 341 - Demands to subordinate theory to praxis can turn resistance into repression
#epitomizes(0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 284