The French Communist Party headquarters in Paris designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer.
"The architect had abandoned his country but not his lifelong political principles: In a show of solidarity, Niemeyer worked on the project for free. But his Marxist-Leninist sympathies were not limitless. "On the politics, I'm with you, but your architecture is awful."
"I am attracted to free-flowing, sensual curves," he wrote in his memoirs. "The curves that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuousness of its rivers, in the waves of the ocean, and on the body of the beloved woman."
The French communist party was in three of the governments. They peaked in the mid 1950s, then gained traction again after the 1968 strikes. Over a million members at some points, including some famous people like Albert Camus and even Ho Chi Minh. They used to be a big deal, although they're nearly gone now. La France Insoumise (Mélenchon's party) has largely eclipsed them.
Leftism has always had a pretty big foothold in France, much more than you'd expect out of a western European imperialist state. If any of the big first-world imperialist nations were to go communist, I really do believe it would be France first.
Ho Chi Minh wasn't just a member, he co-founded it didn't he?
Tmw you co-found a party, only to dismiss them as a lost cause because they wouldn’t budge on their colonialist and social chauvinist positions
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someone tell the communist party of canada this
Hmmm it's almost like the working class of the imperial core are material beneficiaries of imperialist structures :thonk: