Algeria’s liberal European third force collapsed once the French Left aligned with settler fascism.

Evidence

Attacked by such members of the Left in France as Francis Jeanson for being but an opiate of the masses and of knowing only how to spend vast sums of money on “neo-colonial” schemes, besieged by the F.L.N., and now finally extinguished by the O.A.S., the battered ideal of the “third force” died at a time when Algeria had never been more in need of men of goodwill, and enemies of excess and violence. As is so often the tragic path of revolution, it was the Montagne that triumphed over the Gironde. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1585 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

In the face of the fascist-Lacoste surge our group disintegrated. What, after all could we do? There was no longer any choice other than between Lacoste and the Front. A third force could have had meaning only if it had been supported by the French Left. Since the French Left was playing the game of Algerian fascism, any attempt to organize liberal action in Algiers was doomed to failure. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 568 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: France’s refusal to restrain settler fascism drove liberal Algerians to the F.L.N.; Algeria’s moderate third force was crushed between the F.L.N. and the O.A.S. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1585; The French Left’s inaction eliminated any liberal alternative for Algeria’s Europeans — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 568 (+5 more)

Related

• Algeria’s moderate third force was crushed between the F.L.N. and the O.A.S. (similarity 0.93)
• The French Left’s inaction eliminated any liberal alternative for Algeria’s Europeans (similarity 0.93)
• France’s refusal to restrain settler fascism drove liberal Algerians to the F.L.N. (similarity 0.88)
• Moderate third-force politics died squeezed between FLN and OAS (similarity 0.88)
• No genuinely independent left existed among Algeria’s European democrats before the revolution (similarity 0.87)
• A liberal colonia could have kept Europeans in independent Algeria. (similarity 0.86)
• The Algerian Communist Party sided with French settlers rather than Muslim nationalists (similarity 0.84)
• Communists and the Algiers lobby made any liberal Algerian policy impossible in the Assembly. (similarity 0.84)
• Liberal moderates in Algeria became revolutionaries through successive disillusionments (similarity 0.84)
• The European settler minority is the central obstacle to ending the Algerian war (similarity 0.83)
• Pressure from the settler right and Paris politics crushed moderate reform from both sides (similarity 0.83)
• The moderate French Left chose de Gaulle over facing civil war with paratroops (similarity 0.83)
• Defeated reformism pushed moderate nationalists toward the F.L.N. and total independence (similarity 0.83)
• European liberal intellectuals in Algeria faced impossible conscience conflicts as the war radicalized. (similarity 0.83)
• Algeria hosted several simultaneous revolutions on distinct levels (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• France’s refusal to restrain settler fascism drove liberal Algerians to the F.L.N. #corroborates (0.85)
• Algeria’s moderate third force was crushed between the F.L.N. and the O.A.S. #corroborates (0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1585
• The French Left’s inaction eliminated any liberal alternative for Algeria’s Europeans #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 568
• Cooperation between settlers and Muslims could have preserved a European future in Algeria #corroborates (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1672
• Liberal moderates in Algeria became revolutionaries through successive disillusionments #exemplifies (0.55) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 110
• The moderate French Left chose de Gaulle over facing civil war with paratroops #qualifies (0.50)