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"More and more intellectuals adopted the anti-colonialist cause in France after World War II, especially during the Algerian War. This was not a new commitment for the surrealists among them. They had expressed a radical anti-colonial position, by refusing the principle of colonialism itself from the Rif War to the Ethiopian crisis through the Yen Bay insurrection or even the Colonial Exhibition of 1931. Not only linked to their affiliation to the Communist Party, this claim was also the result of their interest in "otherness" largely expressed in their writings; the Primitive, the Negro, or the Oriental represent the different images of the colonized. This cultural approach enabled them to point out what they considered as colonial myths, such as the "civilizing mission" or "colonial humanism," spread all over Europe. Their anti-colonialism was thus a dismantling of the "myth of French imperiality," as qualified by Roland Barthes."