The failure of the left defined by neo-Marxism | EUROtoday

L'Lack of ambition hardly ever results in triumph. The Fête de l'Huma was the scene of touching and ridiculous clashes, the place younger folks stuffed with enthusiasm shouted “Siamo Tutti Antifascisti” in entrance of a contrite François Ruffin. The left has misplaced none of its attraction and La France Insoumise none of its brilliance. It was additionally the demonstration of the failure of the technique of cynicism. The one which consists of refusing to talk to the France that not votes left, of turning its again on it like a sulky and temperamental youngster would have accomplished. Ten years in the past, La France Insoumise, highly effective and promising, might have imagined a undertaking for the nation, a program able to seducing fashionable voters, and why not conservative ones. It gave up on it out of laziness and cynicism.

2016. Jean-Luc Mélenchon marched in Paris with Chantal Mouffe. This Belgian thinker was then the mastermind of the hopes of the European left: Alexis Tsipras, chief of Syriza in Greece, Inigo Errejon and Pablo Iglesias, the leaders of Podemos in Spain. Chantal Mouffe's lesson was easy: take inspiration from the neo-Marxist thinker Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) to reinvent the mental and electoral software program of events marginalized after twenty years of neoliberalism embodied by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. The left needed to applicable the values ​​of the proper: the nation, order, custom and, above all, sovereignty. All within the service of the folks. The technique of revolt was relegated to the rank of previous junk. The new revolutionaries had a mission: to applicable the preferred technique of communication, to seem on tv, to talk to the best quantity, to resemble the voters whose vote they had been soliciting. The objective was not concealment, however assimilation.

This technology was not silly, fairly the opposite, all its leaders had benefited from a strong training in economics, historical past, philosophy, but in addition and above all in political science. Many of them had been researchers, professors, engineers. The cultural battle was on the coronary heart of their technique. It was about imposing new references on the best quantity, establishing a brand new logic, a brand new widespread sense. Doing with anti-liberalism what the neoliberals had accomplished with liberalism.

Deliberately giving up a part of France

When Margaret Thatcher declared: ” There is no alternative “, she implied that she was the one one who held the recipe for achievement. Her opponents had been subsequently charlatans, liars or madmen. Well, this left, essential of the European Union, nationwide, fashionable, was starting to win the sport by imposing different truths. Tsipras had taken energy in Greece; Podemos achieved extraordinary scores within the legislative elections in Spain. Jean-Luc Mélenchon was impressed by it. He referred to the French Revolution, praised France's maritime empire, reconnected with a preferred spirit from which the Socialist Party had distanced itself.

Since then, communitarianism has changed universalism. The technique not consists of talking to all of France, however of intentionally renouncing the larger a part of it. The spirit of pettiness has changed the spirit of conquest; magnitude has given solution to smallness. And by distancing itself from the French, the left has distanced itself from energy. History proves that ideological confinement results in failures. Although General de Gaulle was right-wing, he didn’t solely handle the conservative bourgeoisie. This reader of Maurice Barrès had even managed to take an curiosity in, and assist, the leisure society. Meeting the expectations of the best quantity whereas drawing a sure thought of ​​France, its sovereignty, its id and its future, is usually going in opposition to oneself and one's convictions. Before de Gaulle, Clemenceau had not hesitated to alienate his personal camp to imagine his features as Minister of the Interior and to repress strikes in 1906 by sending within the military. This didn’t forestall him from successful the First World War.

If the left doesn’t come to France, France is not going to come to it. Betting on the dissociation of social lessons might have labored in Russia initially of the twentieth century.^e century or in South America within the 2000s, nevertheless it is not going to produce the identical results on a rustic accustomed, because the fifteenth^e century, to be a nation. Dissensions exist, there are progressives and conservatives, however these distinctions fade relating to the Republic. In the primary spherical, the spirit of the chapel prevails; within the second, the fatherland regains the higher hand. This is likely one of the the explanation why the National Rally collapsed underneath the ramparts of the republican entrance. In France, the middle doesn’t at all times win, however France is at all times received on the middle. The spirit of compromise will not be proof of intelligence, however it’s a situation of benevolence. Humanist nations don’t rally sects, they combat them.