Semi-clandestine contact with Algerians taught European democrats the laws of revolutionary action.

Evidence

Furthermore, with its traditional emphasis on the grandiose liberal principles of the “Great French Revolution”, French education could hardly help but divert perhaps otherwise passive minds to the nobility of revolt. M’hamed Yazid, one of the more intellectual F.L.N. leaders, notes that school heroes for his generation included Mustafa Kemal, Gandhi and the Irish rebels of the First World War. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 182 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: French revolutionary education planted the ideas that armed Algerian revolt — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 182; The FLN never deceived the European democrats who aided it; No genuinely independent left existed among Algeria’s European democrats before the revolution

Related

• French revolutionary education planted the ideas that armed Algerian revolt (similarity 0.93)
• No genuinely independent left existed among Algeria’s European democrats before the revolution (similarity 0.83)
• Rural Algerians underwent a profound revolutionary politicization that French administrators could not reverse. (similarity 0.82)
• France’s refusal to restrain settler fascism drove liberal Algerians to the F.L.N. (similarity 0.82)
• Messali’s revolutionary populism later flowed into the FLN and modern Algeria. (similarity 0.81)
• The French Left’s inaction eliminated any liberal alternative for Algeria’s Europeans (similarity 0.80)
• Francisation destroyed Algeria’s native political cadres, leaving no negotiating partners. (similarity 0.80)
• The F.L.N. framed independence as seized, not granted. (similarity 0.80)
• European liberal intellectuals in Algeria faced impossible conscience conflicts as the war radicalized. (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria hosted several simultaneous revolutions on distinct levels (similarity 0.80)
• F.L.N. destroyed French schools and built its own counter-education system (similarity 0.80)
• The ideals of the French Revolution inspired various European movements. (similarity 0.80)
• Partial French education created a frustrated literate-unemployed class that fueled revolt (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria’s moderate third force was crushed between the F.L.N. and the O.A.S. (similarity 0.79)
• Algerian revolutionaries split between moderates and hard-liners over the pied noir presence (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• French revolutionary education planted the ideas that armed Algerian revolt #corroborates (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 182
• No genuinely independent left existed among Algeria’s European democrats before the revolution #qualifies (0.50)
• The FLN never deceived the European democrats who aided it #expands (0.40)