[annalex]

I disagree on Franco. He crushed the Communist International, and kept the country free and away from the war. He succeeded in defending Spanish national interest where all other European leaders of the time failed. Spain should be missing him sorely now that the pseudo-European International has got its way with their country.

Remember, too that Algeria was to the French much more than a colony; at the time it was, too, defense of France itself. And why should De Gaulle be a yardstick of wisdom?

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France has something over five million Muslims, I'm not sure of the exact figure. If Algeria were part of France that number would be forty million, probably a much bigger headache for France. Plus, the OAS did what they could through terror to make a peaceful solution with a continued French presence in the country impossible. That was another example of "spiritedness" overcoming sense.

The young Venner wanted to see a Leninism of the nationalist right. You can google his "For a Positive Critique" and see. I have to wonder what the point of that would be. All the talk of mobilizing society for some great national goal: freedom is better than all that organizing and conspiring and struggling and obeying.

If there is an actual enemy and war is necessary, fine, but the young Venner's desire for combat, glory, duty, service led him to go looking for fighting organizations or forming them, when what was necessary was living together peacefully in society.