French workers vote for the far-right Rassemblement National more than for other parties, but more often, they don’t vote at all. Rather than laying down roots like the old workers' parties, Marine Le Pen’s party has exploited the vacuum left by their decline.

Slightly light on details article, but seems like being a movement is a fuck. Unions are the last bastions of resistance to reaction, seems like, parties on both left and right just vibing around election time. Last two paragraphs are funny:

The past model of the PCF, like that of the Socialist Party with its various internal currents, is today one that France Insoumise expressly rejects. And rightly so, as far as the PCF’s lack of internal democracy is concerned. But there may well be political lessons to be learned from the PCF’s hundred-year history in terms of mobilizing the working classes. This was ensured by various collective arrangements that placed great importance on activists’ social origins and cherished the role of trade unionists.

Today, formal organization is rejected in favor of a loose movement of sympathizers valuing “horizontality” at all costs and the individual strategies of “civil society” personalities or MPs. Yet this seems ill-suited to ensuring that a political alternative to capitalism, or indeed the fight against the far right, will take root in working-class France. This fight takes place not only at the ballot box, but also on the ground, in the everyday places where people live and work.

lenin-shining

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    Neoliberalism paves a superhighway for fascism. Tale as old as time.

  • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
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    9 months ago

    Is anyone surprised? Liberalism offers nothing to the working class, and with the destruction of any semblance of leftism in the west during the cold war, the fascists can do what they want unopposed.

    • plinky [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      I mean i'm more interested how pcf fucked up, it provides some light details about 70s (again) fuckery with production but like then what

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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    9 months ago

    Ameri-ham Hyper-individualism brainworms infecting more western countries making it next to impossible to organize anything bigger than a glorified book club or glorified food pantry

  • TheGenderWitch [she/her, she/her]
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    9 months ago

    Today, formal organization is rejected in favor of a loose movement of sympathizers valuing “horizontality” at all costs and the individual strategies of “civil society” personalities or MPs. Yet this seems ill-suited to ensuring that a political alternative to capitalism, or indeed the fight against the far right, will take root in working-class France. This fight takes place not only at the ballot box, but also on the ground, in the everyday places where people live and work.

    france plz what is fucking going on with u