A guerrilla movement becomes unliquidatable once it becomes the people’s way of life.

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

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Guerrilla power derives from the whole population, not weaponry; A guerrilla’s power rests in incarnating the whole people’s resistance; Revolutionary cadres divorced from the masses cannot sustain a revolution

Related

• A guerrilla’s power rests in incarnating the whole people’s resistance (similarity 0.91)
• Guerrilla power derives from the whole population, not weaponry (similarity 0.81)
• A small armed population draws its strength from a worldwide revolutionary movement (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Revolutionary cadres divorced from the masses cannot sustain a revolution #complicates (0.60)