Closing legal paths drove eight million Algerians toward violent resistance.

Evidence

Writing in 1953, Professor Julien warned prophetically: “It is by closing the normal paths of legality to a mass of eight million people that one risks driving it back into the arms of the declared adversaries of la présence française, who aim to solve the Algerian problem by violence.” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 223

Categorization

• XREF: This is the thesis statement of the whole book in miniature: foreclosing peaceful reform manufactures the savage war. Connects to Julien’s earlier warning and blum-viollette failure. — connects to: Closing legal political paths drove eight million Muslims toward violent revolution; Closing legal channels of protest pushed Algerians toward violent resistance.; Heavy-handed military reprisals in Algeria drove more Algerians to join the rebels. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 342 (+3 more)

Related

• Closing legal political paths drove eight million Muslims toward violent revolution (similarity 0.94)
• Closing legal channels of protest pushed Algerians toward violent resistance. (similarity 0.93)
• Heavy-handed military reprisals in Algeria drove more Algerians to join the rebels. (similarity 0.81)
• French countermeasures such as ratissages and prison drove Algerians into the F.L.N. (similarity 0.80)
• France’s refusal to restrain settler fascism drove liberal Algerians to the F.L.N. (similarity 0.80)
• Rural Algerians underwent a profound revolutionary politicization that French administrators could not reverse. (similarity 0.79)
• Algerian poverty and unemployment fuelled recruits for the Islamicist revolt (similarity 0.79)
• French revolutionary education planted the ideas that armed Algerian revolt (similarity 0.78)
• The national conflict canalized Algerian anger that had previously surfaced as common crime (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• French countermeasures such as ratissages and prison drove Algerians into the F.L.N. #corroborates (0.80)
• Heavy-handed military reprisals in Algeria drove more Algerians to join the rebels. #corroborates (0.75) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 342
• Armed struggle restores meaning to Algerian lives that colonial domination emptied #expands (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 81
• Armed struggle restored meaning to Algerian life and death #expands (0.45)