State power and force never extinguished liberationist rebellions

Evidence

But the junta could not and will not be able to reach its essential objective: the recovery of the arms held by the miners and peasants. The army advanced, but the arms were hidden. Nobody responded to the invitation to turn over their guns. Without leadership the defeat was inevitable and the miners had to retreat. But they were not broken: proof—the hidden arms. Nobody hides a weapon—at the risk of death or of the loss of his wages, which in Bolivia is almost the same thing—if it is not in order to continue the resistance, if he is not already, by this act alone, continuing the battle. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 53 (#expands, via linked claim)

With the positivity of law and the parallel development of the positivity of purposes, the decision-making organization of the state can be made, in a true sense, sovereign. The state’s powers too must then be organized in a reflexive way. Ways of overpowering power-holders and forms of legitimate change of power must be institutionalized. Only when the overpowering of power is assured can the potential of power be increased without hesitation. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 251 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Even defeated uprisings persist through the hidden act of keeping arms — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 53; Restricting freedom provokes the rebellion it aims to prevent; Religion and myth armed enslaved peoples for eventual impossible rebellion (+6 more)

Related

• Even defeated uprisings persist through the hidden act of keeping arms (similarity 0.89)
• A guerrilla’s power rests in incarnating the whole people’s resistance (similarity 0.79)
• Oppressed people maintained a continuous, dignified resistance throughout history (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Even defeated uprisings persist through the hidden act of keeping arms #expands (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 53
• Restricting freedom provokes the rebellion it aims to prevent #corroborates (0.75)
• Power can be increased only when its own overthrow is institutionalized #corroborates (0.72) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 251
• Religion and myth armed enslaved peoples for eventual impossible rebellion #expands (0.70)
• Guerrilla power derives from the whole population, not weaponry #corroborates (0.65)
• Gesture and claimed rebellion do not constitute genuine freedom. #complicates (0.60) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 272