French colonial wars, not Asian revolutions, first radicalized the metropolitan intelligentsia

Evidence

While the labour movement itself had gradually been tamed through the 1950s, facilitated further by the French Communist Party’s convergence with its own bourgeoisie on the colonial question, the defeat in Indochina and the bloody combat in colon-dominated Algeria served to move large sections of the French population, including substantial sections of the intelligentsia, into the Right’s embrace. The settlement of the Algerian War then paved the way for full-scale consolidation of High Gaullism. It was at this point that the ascendancy of structuralism and then of semiotics began – first in fairly radical variants, in keeping with the temper of the times, and then in increasingly formalist, domesticated directions. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 96 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonialism itself generated the radical intelligentsia that opposed it; French defeat in the colonies drove its intelligentsia rightward before structuralism rose — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 96; Anti-imperialism was first centered in the metropole before decolonization returned home

Related

• French defeat in the colonies drove its intelligentsia rightward before structuralism rose (similarity 0.92)
• French structuralism’s rise followed decolonization defeats and masked rightward political drift (similarity 0.86)
• French colonial defeats and occupation, not Asian decolonization, radicalized Western literary theory (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial discourse analysis emerged from radical theory’s retreat from immediate activist struggles (similarity 0.82)
• French anticolonial radicalism grew directly from anti-fascist and Resistance politics (similarity 0.82)
• French postcolonial theory grew from the Occupation and anti-fascist struggles at home (similarity 0.81)
• French poststructuralist ascendancy accompanied the Rightward political consolidation after Algeria. (similarity 0.81)
• Colonialism itself generated the radical intelligentsia that opposed it (similarity 0.80)
• The 1960s metropolitan Left wrongly conflated anti-colonialism with domestic social progress. (similarity 0.79)
• Vietnam-era radicalism conflated wars of liberation with bourgeois state consolidation (similarity 0.79)
• Settler-decimated or sidelined bourgeoisies let colonial struggles converge with socialist revolution (similarity 0.79)
• Postcolonial Anglo-American academy discourse erased a structural split between revolutionary and national-bourgeois decolonization. (similarity 0.79)
• The First World War era sparked anti-colonial stirrings across Asia and Africa (similarity 0.78)
• Socialist revolutions required sidelining the national bourgeoisie during anti-colonial struggle (similarity 0.78)
• Theory’s ideological shifts track the real fortunes of decolonized states (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonialism itself generated the radical intelligentsia that opposed it #expands (0.85)
• French defeat in the colonies drove its intelligentsia rightward before structuralism rose #contradicts (0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 96
• Anti-imperialism was first centered in the metropole before decolonization returned home #contradicts (0.72)