Sartre declared Algerian independence already a fact during the Jeanson trial
Evidence
At the trial six Algerians and eighteen French were defended by twenty-six lawyers, who skillfully used the occasion as a platform for anti-war speeches. A long statement from Sartre, absent in Brazil, was read out to the court. There was loud applause at Sartre’s words: “The independence of Algeria has in fact been won. Whether it will occur in a year’s time or in five years’ time…I do not know, but it is already a fact.” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1274
Categorization
- SEED: An essay angle: how losing powers convinced themselves late in counterinsurgency wars that victory was already impossible - Sartre’s logic as self-fulfilling prophecy.
- XREF: connects to: Sartre’s Algerian independence campaigning drew death threats and a real bomb attack — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 875