Where direct seizure of power is impossible, the contest moves to the slow capture of cultural and institutional ground.
Gramsci's concept, and it is now invoked as strategy by movements across the political spectrum, including those he opposed. The slow route is chosen when the fast route is unavailable.
In practice
- A campaign that cannot win a vote spends a decade placing sympathetic people on the professional bodies that write the guidance.
- The slow route is chosen when the fast route is unavailable, which is why the strategy appears wherever a group expects to lose the next several elections.
- Standing
- Now invoked as strategy by movements across the political spectrum, including those Gramsci opposed.
- Subject
- Law & Politics
- Essay
- Competing accounts of how power works