Disillusioned war veterans radicalized into a new violent Algerian generation.

Evidence

The nationalist movements were virtually decapitated by the seizure of their leaders — Messali Hadj deported to the French Congo, Ferhat Abbas under house arrest. Messali’s M.T.L.D. in particular had been disrupted by French repression, and all groups were more disunited than ever before, with the liberals fiercely reproaching the M.T.L.D. for their role in the disastrous revolt of 1945. … As rage succeeded frustration with the sabotaging of the 1947 statute, so the support for Abbas and his liberals began to slip away, and Abbas himself was forced to move steadily to a less moderate position. The returning war heroes who had fought so fiercely under Marshal Juin were particularly disillusioned to discover how little things had changed at home after all they had seen and learnt in the outside world. Many gravitated towards the more extreme doctrines of Messali, and began to clamour for yet more direct action than even the M.T.L.D. was proposing. A new post-war generation was emerging that had acquired some knowledge of Marxist revolutionary techniques; that was impatient with interminable political dialogues, meaningless manifestos and unfulfilled promises; that respected strength and force, and that, in short, would not flinch from violence. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 224 (#expands, via linked claim)

His whole career is one of utmost relevance in this story, for it was symptomatic of how the liberal moderate — through successive disillusions — becomes superseded by the revolutionary extremist. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 110 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: European liberal intellectuals in Algeria faced impossible conscience conflicts as the war radicalized.; Returning Muslim war veterans radicalized by French unfulfilled promises and Marxist techniques; Liberal moderates in Algeria became revolutionaries through successive disillusionments — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 110 (+4 more)

Related

• French repression pushed postwar Algerian nationalism toward armed extremism (similarity 0.89)
• European liberal intellectuals in Algeria faced impossible conscience conflicts as the war radicalized. (similarity 0.89)
• Liberal moderates in Algeria became revolutionaries through successive disillusionments (similarity 0.88)
• Returning Muslim war veterans radicalized by French unfulfilled promises and Marxist techniques (similarity 0.86)
• Fear of castration conditioned brutal French reprisals against Algerians. (similarity 0.86)
• Repeated disillusion pushed liberal moderates toward revolutionary extremism (similarity 0.86)
• France’s rejection of moderate Algerian reformers radicalized them into revolutionaries (similarity 0.85)
• French rejection of moderates repeatedly drove them toward revolutionary extremism (similarity 0.85)
• Sétif radicalized returning Muslim soldiers into future F.L.N. leaders (similarity 0.84)
• Closing legal channels of protest pushed Algerians toward violent resistance. (similarity 0.84)
• Messali’s revolutionary populism later flowed into the FLN and modern Algeria. (similarity 0.83)
• France’s refusal to restrain settler fascism drove liberal Algerians to the F.L.N. (similarity 0.83)
• Escalating polarization in 1960 crushed centrist moderates in France’s Algerian debate (similarity 0.81)
• Defeated reformism pushed moderate nationalists toward the F.L.N. and total independence (similarity 0.81)
• Rural Algerians underwent a profound revolutionary politicization that French administrators could not reverse. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Liberal moderates in Algeria became revolutionaries through successive disillusionments #exemplifies (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 110
• French repression pushed postwar Algerian nationalism toward armed extremism #expands (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 224
• Each Algerian generation grows harder rather than wearier against colonialism #expands (0.55)