Under dictatorship insurrection becomes the only channel for mass political expression.

Evidence

But now, in addition, Gramsci spoke of the need to “put on the agenda … the preparation for an insurrection. Recent political events mark the beginning of a phase in which insurrection has become the sole means for the masses to express their political will”. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 202

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Dictators only threaten democracy once multitudes elevate them; Subaltern speech becomes political only when entering responsible resistance structures. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 2184
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Dictators only threaten democracy once multitudes elevate them; Subaltern speech becomes political only when entering responsible resistance structures. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 2184

Broader Connections

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