Defeated reformism pushed moderate nationalists toward the F.L.N. and total independence

Evidence

Undoubtedly the most important single acquisition to the F.L.N. during this period was the person of the arch-apostle of moderation, Ferhat Abbas himself. In the spring of 1955 Abbas had made a powerful speech at the small port of Djidjelli that had come as a shock to Soustelle. If there were any “outlaws” in Algeria today, declared Abbas, they were to be found within the “colonialist regime”: “They are the prefects, they are the mayors, they are the administrators of the communes mixtes.” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 432 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

At a clinic where Soustelle was shown a child with its eyes eaten away by trachoma, his own feelings were voiced by an aide who was heard to murmur: “Do we really have to bombard such poor devils?” It was typical of the conflicting emotions that the sight of actual suffering, or inhumanity, invariably aroused in Soustelle. Meanwhile, in Paris, resistance to his “integration” concept was gathering momentum as opponents warned of the implications that parliament would eventually be “swamped” by the populous Muslims; that, in its present delicate state of balance, the Assembly might find the casting vote held steadily by a cohesive Algerian bloc. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 362 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The F.L.N. framed independence as seized, not granted.; Repeated disillusion pushed liberal moderates toward revolutionary extremism; French rejection of moderates repeatedly drove them toward revolutionary extremism (+6 more)

Related

• The moderate Abbas moved to the F.L.N. because reform failed (similarity 0.94)
• The revolution forced even arch-moderate Abbas to abandon gradualism (similarity 0.91)
• Pressure from the settler right and Paris politics crushed moderate reform from both sides (similarity 0.91)
• France’s refusal to restrain settler fascism drove liberal Algerians to the F.L.N. (similarity 0.89)
• The moderationist Ferhat Abbas relinquished his party to join the F.L.N. (similarity 0.88)
• French rejection of moderates repeatedly drove them toward revolutionary extremism (similarity 0.87)
• The F.L.N. welcomed Mendès-France’s fall because liberal reform threatened their independence goal. (similarity 0.87)
• France’s rejection of moderate Algerian reformers radicalized them into revolutionaries (similarity 0.86)
• Repeated disillusion pushed liberal moderates toward revolutionary extremism (similarity 0.85)
• Liberal moderates in Algeria became revolutionaries through successive disillusionments (similarity 0.84)
• Moderate third-force politics died squeezed between FLN and OAS (similarity 0.83)
• Abbas’s 1943 Manifesto abandoned assimilation for Algerian self-government demands (similarity 0.83)
• Philippeville’s backlash drove moderate Muslim deputies to repudiate integration (similarity 0.83)
• Algeria’s liberal European third force collapsed once the French Left aligned with settler fascism. (similarity 0.83)
• European liberal intellectuals in Algeria faced impossible conscience conflicts as the war radicalized. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• The moderate Abbas moved to the F.L.N. because reform failed #exemplifies (0.85) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 432
• French rejection of moderates repeatedly drove them toward revolutionary extremism #corroborates (0.80)
• Pressure from the settler right and Paris politics crushed moderate reform from both sides #corroborates (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 362