Tacit forms of parliamentarism persist where explicit ones are abolished

Evidence

For it has not yet been remarked that it is not so easy to destroy parliamentarism as it seems. “Implicit” and “tacit” parliamentarism is far more dangerous than the explicit variety, since it has all its defects without its positive values. There often exists a “tacit” party system, i.e. a “tacit” and “implicit” parliamentarism where one would least think it. … Hypocritical self-criticism is precisely a feature of such situation. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 951

Categorization

• XREF: This ‘black parliamentarism’ idea resonates with how later Islamophobia critiques spot formal inclusion masking informal exclusion — e.g., self-criticism rituals that function performatively rather than operatively. — connects to: India domesticates the standard social-movement repertoire into parliament-oriented claim-making — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 522
• SEED: Angle: formal vs. tacit exclusion mechanisms — how performative self-criticism and procedural rituals substitute for real change in institutional settings.