4 - Assessing the Settler Movement’s Success

Summary

To assess success in any context, we need to know at the very least the main goals against which success is to be measured. While this may be straightforward for organizations or individuals, it is less so with respect to social movements, which comprise networks of networks – webs of different individuals and groups with partially differing (sub)goals. This is also the case for the settler movement, which is internally heterogeneous in terms of many variables, including motivation for settlement, political ideology, and religion (see Chapter 3). That is why we begin this chapter with an analysis of the key goal of the settler movement as a whole, as well as its subgoals, mostly means to achieve the primary goal.