A lingering Algerian hatred of French rule simmers until it erupts into war
Evidence
As long as you keep Algiers, you will be constantly at war with Africa; sometimes this war will seem to end; but these people will not hate you any the less; it will be a half-extinguished fire that will smoulder under the ash and which, at the first opportunity, will burst into a vast conflagration. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 63
Categorization
- XREF: Resonates with the suppressed-resistance theme in the readings on genocide and on Black Marxism — routinized domination invites slumbering revolt. — connects to: Rapidly shifting loyalties in wartime France weakened Algerian trust in any authority; The national conflict canalized Algerian anger that had previously surfaced as common crime — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1241; A French warning predicted that colonizing Algiers would ignite endless war with Africa. (+5 more)
- QUESTION: Who wrote or said this warning, and to whom is it addressed? Worth chasing the source of this epigraph-like claim.
Related
- A French warning predicted that colonizing Algiers would ignite endless war with Africa. (similarity 0.91)
- The national conflict canalized Algerian anger that had previously surfaced as common crime (similarity 0.86)
- Rapidly shifting loyalties in wartime France weakened Algerian trust in any authority (similarity 0.85)
- Brutal French reprisals backfired by deepening Algerian hatred of France (similarity 0.84)
- French repression pushed postwar Algerian nationalism toward armed extremism (similarity 0.82)
- The Algerian War was anticolonial, not religious, yet seeded later jihad (similarity 0.82)
- The Algerian war was simultaneously a war of peace and one of extreme savagery (similarity 0.82)
- Fear of castration conditioned brutal French reprisals against Algerians. (similarity 0.81)
- Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war (similarity 0.81)
- The Algerian War’s aftermath migrated with émigrés into France’s banlieues (similarity 0.81)
- French metropolitan democracy attenuated, while colonial Algeria criminalized, dissent against empire. (similarity 0.80)
- French Algérie served as a defensive bulwark against Soviet influence (similarity 0.80)
- Wartime Algeria indelibly shaped the post-1962 regime. (similarity 0.80)
- French official archives still held Algeria war secrets long after the conflict (similarity 0.80)
- The full truth of the Algerian war may now be permanently unknowable to anyone (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Demographic pressure rather than French presence produced Algerian misery
#contradicts(0.85) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 346 - French repression pushed postwar Algerian nationalism toward armed extremism
#expands(0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 224