Why Were The Ideas Of Government Justified?

The ideas of government were not exclusive to the nation in isolation and were extended out, here in the interests of the state violence would be justified both in protecting its own interests and in civilizing others. In the ever more global world 18th century European nations traded through North Africa as part of this growing globalised economy. Owing to problems with Algeria in the form of piracy they attempted negotiations, when non-violent attempts at agreement were unsuccessful they made the decision of taking over Algeria through force. Now a problematic nation and its resources were under French rule and it had the added bonus of looking favourable in the home country where the monarchy was not favourable with the citizenship, here colonisation became an asset of a
In a capitalist state there was the tendency for the strong to exploit the weak, empires were in the eyes of Lenin an extension of the monopoly of power (Lenin, 1917) . In Algeria the French brought capitalist ideas to Algeria that favoured the europeans with the native Algerians pushed from the centres into the country. Inequality , minimal political voice and rights to property for the Algerians lead to growing disillusionment , while outwardly the French gave the Algerians a voice to pacify them the reality was they rigged elections and stamped down upon dissent. Lenin had argued that the powerful would not give up their position to passive protest and in this way violent opposition and revolt was justified, here fighting fire with fire. The FLN engaged in terrorist tactics believing both the more moderate national parties were too passive ,and that they could not win a conventional battle with the French army. The French fought back killing and torturing the Algerians eventually winning in the battle for possession at least physically though not