A guerrilla’s power rests in incarnating the whole people’s resistance

Evidence

The capitalist and imperialist armies can go on dozens of ­mopping-­up operations and even achieve some relative successes, militarily speaking. But after the guerrillas have taken root to a certain point, they can no longer be liquidated. For the guerrillas have already become a way of life for the population, a part of its existence, and they will be renewed, reborn, and will go forward whatever the situation or the apparent power of the enemy. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 19 (#expands, via linked claim)

Who and what is containing it? What is the force that is animating the Dominicans? The people in these two square kilometers are not alone. The entire Dominican population is expressing itself through these armed civilians in these few blocks. But the three and a half million Dominicans are not alone either. The force of the worldwide revolution, which sustained Algeria and is sustaining Zanzibar, has found a point of support in the armed population of Santo Domingo. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 51 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Guerrilla power derives from the whole population, not weaponry; Colonialist attacks on a custom create the native resistance that sustains it; A small armed population draws its strength from a worldwide revolutionary movement — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 51 (+7 more)

Related

• A guerrilla movement becomes unliquidatable once it becomes the people’s way of life. (similarity 0.91)
• A small armed population draws its strength from a worldwide revolutionary movement (similarity 0.88)
• Only isolated revolutionary forces fail to represent the world revolution (similarity 0.82)
• Guerrilla power derives from the whole population, not weaponry (similarity 0.81)
• State power and force never extinguished liberationist rebellions (similarity 0.79)
• African anti-colonial resistance slowly integrated discrete societies into cohesive movements (similarity 0.79)
• Even defeated uprisings persist through the hidden act of keeping arms (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• A guerrilla movement becomes unliquidatable once it becomes the people’s way of life. #expands (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 19
• A small armed population draws its strength from a worldwide revolutionary movement #corroborates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 51
• Military defeat of guerrilla bands shifted rather than ended the revolution’s political impact #qualifies (0.55)
• Everyday living itself constitutes a form of resistance against extremism #exemplifies (0.45) — Alexis Okeowo, A Moonless, Starless Sky, 14