Pre-war Algerian brothers deliberately avoided working together before the Revolution

Evidence

And the traditional respect for the big brother did not inhibit the political or military chief. Invested with a power within the framework of the Revolution, the brother was led to go beyond the stereotyped, automatic ways of behavior. The man who seemed to disappear behind the brother now came to the fore. The older brother was no longer necessarily right, and each one now defined his own values. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 371 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Before 1954, the existence of nationalist parties had already introduced changes into the native private life. The nationalist parties, the parliamentary political action, the spreading of slogans advocating splitting off from France, had already given rise to certain contradictions within the family. These developments invited the inert resistance of the colonized society to turn into action. For the tense immobility of the dominated society, the nationalist parties tried to substitute awareness, movement, creation. The people, as a whole, agreed with these parties, but they had a sharp memory of the legendary ferocity of the French military and police. Witnesses of the colonial invasion, still alive 30 or 40 years ago, had often related to them episodes of the conquest. In many regions of Algeria the accounts of massacres and the burning of villages were still vividly remembered. The conqueror had settled in such numbers, he had created so many centers of colonization, that a certain passivity encouraged by the colonial domination made itself evident and gradually took on a tinge of despair. Before 1954, the son who adopted a nationalist position never did so, really, against his father’s wishes, but his activity as a militant in any case never in any respect modified his filial behavior within the framework of the Algerian family. The relations based on the absolute respect due to the father and on the principle that the truth is first of all the unchallengeable property of the elders were not encroached upon. Modesty, shame, the fear of looking at the father, of speaking aloud in his presence, remained intact, even in the case of the nationalist militant. The absence of actual revolutionary action kept the personality in its customary channels. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 350 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Involved in the struggle, the husband or the father learns to look upon the relations between the sexes in a new light. The militant man discovers the militant woman, and jointly they create new dimensions for Algerian society. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 252 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial violence against families forged Algerian national unity through shared suffering; Revolutionary authority in Algeria replaced the elder brother’s automatic precedence — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 371; Legal nationalist politics before 1954 did not disturb Algerian filial hierarchy — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 350 (+1 more)

Related

• Revolutionary authority in Algeria replaced the elder brother’s automatic precedence (similarity 0.90)
• Legal nationalist politics before 1954 did not disturb Algerian filial hierarchy (similarity 0.89)
• Colonial violence against families forged Algerian national unity through shared suffering (similarity 0.81)
• The Revolution dissolved patriarchal jealousy between Algerian men and women (similarity 0.81)
• Joint political struggle restructured Algerian gender relations from within (similarity 0.81)
• Revolution dissolved the Algerian husband’s traditional jealousy of his wife (similarity 0.80)
• Revolution transformed the Algerian couple from a family contract into a revolutionary unit (similarity 0.80)
• The revolution affected Algerian women’s lives more profoundly than any other domain (similarity 0.80)
• The Revolution let love override customary paternal marriage authority in Algeria (similarity 0.80)
• Pre-revolution activist politics left paternal authority within the family untouched (similarity 0.79)
• Revolutionary struggle fused national liberation with women’s liberation in Algeria (similarity 0.79)
• The revolution transforms the family’s apparent weakness into strategic advantage (similarity 0.78)
• Colonial ethnographers claimed a hidden matriarchy lay beneath visible Algerian patriarchy (similarity 0.78)
• Colonial collaboration trapped Algerian fathers in a web they could not escape (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Revolutionary authority in Algeria replaced the elder brother’s automatic precedence #corroborates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 371
• Legal nationalist politics before 1954 did not disturb Algerian filial hierarchy #corroborates (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 350
• Joint political struggle restructured Algerian gender relations from within #corroborates (0.45) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 252