“The strange victory”, anatomy of reactionary discourse | EUROtoday

The second of political crystallization throughout which the far proper virtually conquered energy in France has moved away. The nice stress of the legislative elections even appears virtually forgotten. However, if the “republican front” labored, the reduction may very well be short-lived. “The start has taken place, but everything indicates that it will only be a reprieve”warn the thinker Michaël Foessel and the sociologist Etienne Ollion in An odd victory. The far proper in opposition to politics (Threshold, 192 pages, 19 euros). The dissolution of the National Assembly revealed different decompositions. It is politics itself which appears dissolved on this “era of astonishment” that we’re going by means of, analyze the authors of this essay on “current political strangeness” whose title is chosen in consonance with The Strange Defeat by historian Marc Bloch, reflection on the navy, ethical and political collapse of France in 1940.

The interference between the precise and the left has elevated, significantly with using ” at the same time “ pricey to Emmanuel Macron, who takes up on the one hand the Maurassian distinction between the “legal country” and the “real country” and, on the opposite, pantheonizes the couple of communist resistance fighters and Armenian immigrants Mélinée and Missak Manouchian. The confusion between ideas and values ​​permits the National Rally to proclaim itself defender of the Republic and secularism.

Michaël Foessel and Etienne Ollion overturn many preconceived concepts. For instance, the argument that “we would never have tried” the intense proper, since – with out even mentioning the Vichy regime – from Franco to Salazar, from Bolsonaro to Trump, nationalism has taken a wide range of varieties which can’t be lowered to the Nazi repellent.

It is nationalism that’s “woke”, they argue, because it victimizes the indigenous majority who “experiences oneself as a minority on its own soil” with the “great replacement” conspiracy principle. Faced with this reactionary grammar, the authors choose “common sense” to the cult of “common sense” and false proof, select ideas quite than values, and oppose “we are at home” with id regressions with a “we” political and egalitarian.