Sure, but I'm afraid that it will just help the right-wing. At least in the US, the left wouldn't be allowed to say much in mainstream media, so the only people attacking stuff like this would be dishonest conservatives. If France is similar, things will only get worse.
Do you mean that Macron’s use of 49.3 will only help the right?
I don’t think so. The centre right have been pretty shattered, the Republicans and the PS are very diminished as political forces, and it’s true that the right is radicalizing, but then again the far right has always moved somewhat in lockstep with a radicalizing and
organizing left because they are also a reaction to the failures of liberal capitalism.
M’y impression is that what is going on now in France is radicalizing a lot of people towards the left, over issues that have been building for a while. There have also been recent reactionary laws on work and unemployment, as well as profoundly racist immigration laws brought by rapist minister of the interior Darmanin.
The French right are trying to gain from it to embellish their populist credentials but I don’t think it’s touching young people as much as they’d like. That being said, the French far right RN had distinguished itself in recent history by actually having a far higher proportion of young people as members and activists compared to other far right movements.
There is also the French equivalent of Fox News, CNews, which is as vile as u can imagine. Like imagine great replacement theorist fascists but they’re either decrepit old nonces and aristocrats or they’re 99 cent store, hunting, bougie versions of Andrew Tate.
That being said, the success of the fash has mainly been amongst the bougie, petit boug and more rural precarized white workers. The precarized middle classes and most virulently reactionary elements of the bourgeoisie have been their base of support. In the cities and amongst most young people the left is definitely stronger. The situation is better than in most of Italy. Amongst students notably, although there are also bastions of academic and student reaction.
It should be remembered that France is kinda unique in the west because more so than other countries it managed to preserve something like and organized left and unions during the neoliberal onslaught, despite waves of reformism, opportunism and sectarianism following the left’s post-war peak.
The left, including it’s more organized and radical elements, is far more present and vocal on media in France than in, say, the US or the UK, even though the corporate media is equally corrupt and beholden to capitalist interests.
TLDR: everything under Heaven is chaos. The situation is excellent. :mao-aggro-shining:
Sure, but I'm afraid that it will just help the right-wing. At least in the US, the left wouldn't be allowed to say much in mainstream media, so the only people attacking stuff like this would be dishonest conservatives. If France is similar, things will only get worse.
Do you mean that Macron’s use of 49.3 will only help the right?
I don’t think so. The centre right have been pretty shattered, the Republicans and the PS are very diminished as political forces, and it’s true that the right is radicalizing, but then again the far right has always moved somewhat in lockstep with a radicalizing and organizing left because they are also a reaction to the failures of liberal capitalism. M’y impression is that what is going on now in France is radicalizing a lot of people towards the left, over issues that have been building for a while. There have also been recent reactionary laws on work and unemployment, as well as profoundly racist immigration laws brought by rapist minister of the interior Darmanin.
The French right are trying to gain from it to embellish their populist credentials but I don’t think it’s touching young people as much as they’d like. That being said, the French far right RN had distinguished itself in recent history by actually having a far higher proportion of young people as members and activists compared to other far right movements.
There is also the French equivalent of Fox News, CNews, which is as vile as u can imagine. Like imagine great replacement theorist fascists but they’re either decrepit old nonces and aristocrats or they’re 99 cent store, hunting, bougie versions of Andrew Tate.
That being said, the success of the fash has mainly been amongst the bougie, petit boug and more rural precarized white workers. The precarized middle classes and most virulently reactionary elements of the bourgeoisie have been their base of support. In the cities and amongst most young people the left is definitely stronger. The situation is better than in most of Italy. Amongst students notably, although there are also bastions of academic and student reaction.
It should be remembered that France is kinda unique in the west because more so than other countries it managed to preserve something like and organized left and unions during the neoliberal onslaught, despite waves of reformism, opportunism and sectarianism following the left’s post-war peak.
The left, including it’s more organized and radical elements, is far more present and vocal on media in France than in, say, the US or the UK, even though the corporate media is equally corrupt and beholden to capitalist interests.
TLDR: everything under Heaven is chaos. The situation is excellent. :mao-aggro-shining: