“After the murder of Quentin Deranque, the left is caught in a vice” | EUROtoday

Dyears The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), Hannah Arendt confirmed that fascist regimes established their energy by changing the historic actuality of info with a fictitious and fabricated fact. This different fact, supported by terror and state propaganda, has blurred ethical requirements. In this atmosphere, ideology is a Manichean weapon that produces an ethical inversion: it transforms the false into the true and imposes an official fact.

France, a democratic nation with a rule of legislation, is by no means similar to the totalitarian regimes of the Thirties and Nineteen Forties. However, the response which adopted the homicide of younger far-right activist Quentin Deranque by anti-fascist activists is astonishing. It borrows from the mechanisms of ideological inversion particular to authoritarian regimes. The incessant hearth in opposition to the anti-fascist motion – ​​notably the Young Guard, members of which seem linked to the homicide – and its ally, La France insoumise (LFI), is astonishing due to its depth. However, the “rebellious” motion has by no means publicly referred to as for violent actions.

The public debate is experiencing excessive agitation, as a result of the disaster brought on by this homicide creates a windfall impact: the National Rally (RN) has the chance to finish its demonization. The heirs of the National Front by no means stop to neglect that their get together, born in 1972, introduced collectively ex-collaborators of Vichy, ex-Waffen SS, ex-members of the OAS or the neofascist scholar motion. The RN has by no means formally repudiated its affiliation with French fascism; a legacy which has lengthy blacklisted the get together, regardless of Marine Le Pen’s efforts to make it acceptable.

Supreme cultural battle

Jordan Bardella affirmed {that a} sanitary cordon needs to be positioned round LFI. Yesterday, these remarks would have sparked sarcasm. Today, nobody dares to publicly refute them. The RN is utilizing the present political sequence to realize definitive acceptance within the mainstream coverage and redeploy the sanitary cordon round LFI.

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