War of position suits stable equilibrium when frontal attack is impossible

Evidence

In “The Concept of Passive Revolution’ ” (pp. 106-14), Gramsci tentatively related “passive revolution” to “war of position”. The difficulty of this latter concept is that Gramsci uses it in two partially conflicting senses. Sometimes it is the form of political struggle which alone is possible in periods of relatively stable equilibrium between the fundamental classes, i.e. when frontal attack, or war of manoeuvre, is impossible. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 824

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the two senses of war of position and its relation to passive revolution.
• XREF: connects to: A subordinate class cannot win by imitating ruling-class force tactics — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 885
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: A subordinate class cannot win by imitating ruling-class force tactics — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 885