Years ago, Zizek said that if the French people picked Macron over Melanchon they'd just be dooming themselves to LePen in 2023 or whatever. I wish I could find it, can't remember if it was even an article or interview though.
Our media present the two second-round contestants as standing for two radically opposed visions of France: the independent centrist versus the far-right racist – yes, but do they offer a real choice? Le Pen offers a feminised/softened version of brutal anti-immigrant populism (of her father), and Macron offers neoliberalism with a human face, while his image is also softly feminised (see the maternal role his wife plays in the media). So the father is out and femininity is in – but, again, what kind of femininity? As Alain Badiou pointed out, in today’s ideological universe, men are ludic adolescent outlaws, while women appear as hard, mature, serious, legal and punitive. Women today are not called by the ruling ideology to be subordinated, they are called – solicited, expected – to be judges, administrators, ministers, CEOs, teachers, policewomen and soldiers. A paradigmatic scene occurring daily in our security institutions is that of a feminine teacher/judge/psychologist taking care of an immature asocial young male delinquent. A new figure of femininity is thus arising: a cold competitive agent of power, seductive and manipulative, attesting to the paradox that “in the conditions of capitalism women can do better than men” (Badiou). This, of course, in no way makes women suspicious as agents of capitalism; it merely signals that contemporary capitalism invented its own ideal image of woman who stands for cold administrative power with a human face.
Supposedly both Macron and Le Pen have been campaigning on reducing the price of baguettes, because France is feeling the inflation crunch just as much as the rest of Europe.
Years ago, Zizek said that if the French people picked Macron over Melanchon they'd just be dooming themselves to LePen in 2023 or whatever. I wish I could find it, can't remember if it was even an article or interview though.
Don’t believe the liberals – there is no real choice between Le Pen and Macron
:lenin-confused: Thank you zizek
Everything is idpol and I want to scream.
all idpol is idsexual pathology
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I love how the woman in the first photo is carrying a baguette.
Supposedly both Macron and Le Pen have been campaigning on reducing the price of baguettes, because France is feeling the inflation crunch just as much as the rest of Europe.