ABSTRACT
Neocolonialists think that there are some good colonists and some very wicked ones, and that it is the fault of the latter that the situation of the colonies has deteriorated.
This mystification consists of the following: you are taken around Algeria, you are obligingly shown the extreme poverty of the people, which is dreadful, you are told about the humiliation the Muslims suffer at the hands of the wicked colonists. And then, when you are really outraged, they add: ‘that is why the best Algerians have taken up arms; they couldn’t take any more.’ If they go about this in the right way, you will return home convinced:
First, that the Algerian problem is first of all economic. It is a question of providing, by means of judicious reforms, food for nine million people.
