A small armed population draws its strength from a worldwide revolutionary movement
Evidence
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
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: A guerrilla’s power rests in incarnating the whole people’s resistance; The oppressed group’s apparent weakness becomes a revolutionary advantage against the enemy — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 14; Only isolated revolutionary forces fail to represent the world revolution — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 52 (+1 more)
Related
- Only isolated revolutionary forces fail to represent the world revolution (similarity 0.89)
- A guerrilla’s power rests in incarnating the whole people’s resistance (similarity 0.88)
- Revolutionary cadres divorced from the masses cannot sustain a revolution (similarity 0.82)
- African anti-colonial resistance slowly integrated discrete societies into cohesive movements (similarity 0.81)
- Algeria’s 1954 armed uprising responded to a chain of prior global revolutions (similarity 0.81)
- Toussaint lost the revolution by neglecting the masses who fought for it (similarity 0.80)
- The oppressed group’s apparent weakness becomes a revolutionary advantage against the enemy (similarity 0.80)
- Algerian guerrilla warfare became the prototype studied by liberation movements worldwide (similarity 0.79)
- The 1954 revolution released a long-prepared tactic rather than awakening a passive people (similarity 0.79)
- A guerrilla movement becomes unliquidatable once it becomes the people’s way of life. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Only isolated revolutionary forces fail to represent the world revolution
#corroborates(0.75) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 52 - Algeria’s 1954 armed uprising responded to a chain of prior global revolutions
#expands(0.65) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 11