> ungovernable Interesting word choice. Supposedly, the word "ungovernable" was used by anticolonialist/anti-imperialist factions in the '70s to describe a de

> ungovernable Interesting word choice. Supposedly, the word "ungovernable" was used by anticolonialist/anti-imperialist factions in the '70s to describe a deliberate strategy of breaking down the "peace, order, and good government" that their imperialist counterparts offered as justification for their existence. Closely related is "no justice, no peace". However, this attribution of "ungovernable" to left-actors came to me via a right-source, so I'm not completely sure about it. If true, however, then I think you're implicitly reaching back to that era, to conjure images of South Africa and Uganda. I think the recent coinage of "Brazilianization" has a similar goal. Anyway, I would be very interested if anyone could help trace this sense of "ungovernable" to its source. Some possible leads: [1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-political-science/article/abs/overload-ungovernability-and-delegitimation-the-theories-and-the-british-case/AF86FCAA9DBF0F33E0C2E509D63E16DA https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-p... and its sources, particularly [2] King, Anthony, ‘Overload: Problems of Governing in the 1970s’, Political Studies, XXIII (1975), 284–96. ; and [3] https://ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/Soc924-2011/Offe%20--%20Ungovernability.pdf https://ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/Soc924-2011/Offe%20--%20Ungover... and its sources, particularly [4] Fluno, Robert Y. (1971), “The Floundering Leviathan: Pluralism in an Age of Ungover- nability.” In: Political Research Quarterly, 24/3: 560-566. These are all "establishment" sources though; there are no real Left sources so far -- though [3] does say, > Ungovernability is a peculiar concept. It has been used both by academic political sociologists and by journalists and politicians; it has played a role in New Left as well as neo-conservative discourses. so I think it should be possible to see where it went (and came from) on the Left. EDIT: I now also find these: [5] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/become-ungovernable https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/become-ungovernable [6] https://dailypost.ng/2021/01/22/us-were-ungovernable-protesters-vandalize-democratic-party-headquarters-others/ https://dailypost.ng/2021/01/22/us-were-ungovernable-protest... Who knows what the latter source is though.