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Uncertain Dominance : The Colonial State and Its Contradictions
Sudipta Sen
- pp 149-164
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In this article, Gramsci compared political struggle to colonial wars or old wars of conquest, in which the victorious army occupies, or proposes to occupy, permanently all or part of the conquered territory.Abstract:
Political struggle is enormously more complex: in a certain sense, it can be compared to colonial wars or to old wars of conquest—in which the victorious army occupies, or proposes to occupy, permanently all or part of the conquered territory. Then the defeated army is disarmed and dispersed, but the struggle continues on the terrain of politics. —Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooksread more
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