{"id":32697,"date":"2021-10-08T18:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/?p=32697"},"modified":"2021-10-06T23:31:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T23:31:16","slug":"the-algerian-revolution-changed-the-world-for-the-better-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/en\/the-algerian-revolution-changed-the-world-for-the-better-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Algerian Revolution Changed the World for the Better – PART 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY ROBERT MAISEY<\/a>\u00a0In https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/<\/h4>\n

Early Nationalism<\/h1>\n

The Algerians had waged a long and furious struggle against colonization at its onset in the 1830s, but by the late nineteenth century, all traces of this resistance had been quashed. However, as in other parts of the old empires, the experience of serving in the imperial armies during World War I and II, as well as migration in and out of the industrialized heartlands, exposed Algerians to new ideological perspectives. Wilsonian liberalism, Soviet socialism, and reformist currents within Islam combined to bring about a renewed Algerian national self-consciousness.<\/p>\n

By the 1920s, liberal currents within Algerian politics responded to Woodrow Wilson\u2019s anti-colonial declarations and began to argue for equal citizenship and limited autonomy. However, they rapidly found themselves frustrated and persecuted, failing to find their hoped-for ally in the United States. \u201cWilsonian\u201d self-determination was intended only for the white peoples of Europe. Resistance to Muslim participation in democratic life was particularly strong among the\u00a0colons,\u00a0<\/em>who had no intention of allowing the conquered natives to coexist on equal terms.<\/p>\n