The cultural battle or how the far proper wove the story of its conquest | EUROtoday

It is an concept that has gained floor, till it has develop into apparent: the “cultural battle” has develop into the prerogative of the far proper. From “wokism” to “the great replacement”, a wrestle to impose its phrases is presently enjoying out on the cabinets of bookstores, on the radio and tv waves of the Bolloré sphere and on social networks… And, a bit over a yr earlier than the presidential election, this offensive nourishes the concept that, cultural victories previous political victories, the arrival of the National Rally (RN) would have develop into inevitable.

This argument, drawn from the writings of the Italian communist thinker Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), who died after a decade in fascist prisons, is the fruits of a protracted historical past wherein concepts haven’t different a lot. It started within the Nineteen Sixties, when the French far proper discovered itself relegated to the margins, when the left appeared to have acquired a cultural monopoly. To survive, circumvent the stigma that has affected the figures of “national camp” on the finish of the Second World War, like Charles Maurras (1868-1952), it was essential to borrow from the adversary, to blur the borders.

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