War of position targets civil society’s institutions rather than a single decisive breach.

Evidence

I would like to try to see the extent to which the binary schema of war and struggle, of the clash between forces, can really be identified as the basis of civil society, as both the principle and motor of the exercise of political power. Are we really talking about war when we analyze the workings of power? Are the notions of “tactics,” 46 “strategy,” and “relations of force” valid? To what extent are they valid? Is power quite simply a continuation of war by means other than weapons and battles? Does what has now become the commonplace theme, though it is a relatively recent theme, that power is responsible for defending civil society imply, yes or no, that the political structure of society 1s so organized that some can defend themselves against others, or can defend their domination against the rebellion of others, or quite simply defend their victory and perpetuate it by subjugating others? — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 37 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Civil society may be structured by perpetual war between forces — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 37; Hegemonic rule works through patient strategic struggle rather than frontal assault.; Civil-society institutions function as the trenches where hegemony is actually fought (+1 more)

Related

• Civil society may be structured by perpetual war between forces (similarity 0.88)
• Resistance operates by strategy and struggle, not juridical right (similarity 0.84)
• War and politics are two codings of the same force relations (similarity 0.78)
• Subaltern forces resist rationalization intended to serve dominant interests. (similarity 0.78)
• The overall balance of forces imposes the form of war (similarity 0.78)
• War is the permanent underpinning of social institutions; this is Hobbes’s great adversary. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Civil-society institutions function as the trenches where hegemony is actually fought #expands (0.92)
• Hegemonic rule works through patient strategic struggle rather than frontal assault. #corroborates (0.90)
• Civil society may be structured by perpetual war between forces #complicates (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 37
• Resistance operates by strategy and struggle, not juridical right #corroborates (0.72) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 296