Upon his release from prison in the autumn of 1962, Venner wrote a manifesto entitled "Pour une critique positive" (Towards a positive critique), which has been compared by some to Vladimir Lenin's "What is to be done?", as it became a "foundational text of a whole segment of the ultra-right". In the manifesto, Venner explored the reasons for the failure of the April 1961 coup and the divide that existed between "nationals" ("nationaux") and "nationalists" ("nationalistes") and called for the creation of a single revolutionary and nationalist organisation, which would be "monolithic and hierarchical" and composed of young, "disciplined and devoted" nationalist militants who would be ready for combat.