Yet this is not the situation in France today, where violent rebellion is unlikely to end with any kind of progressive settlement for the wretched of the Earth. If law and order are not promptly restored, the final outcome may well be the election of Marine le Pen, the leader of the hard-right National Rally party, as the new president.
Seriously? Evoking Fanon to argue for a stronger France?
In this general situation, the left must assume the slogan of law and order as its own. One of the most depressing facts in recent history is that the only case of a violent revolutionary crowd invading the seat of power was on 6 January 2021, when Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol in Washington DC. They viewed the election as illegitimate, a theft organised by corporate elites. Left-liberals reacted with a mix of fascination and horror. Some of my friends cried, saying: “We should be doing something like this!” There was both envy and condemnation as they watched “ordinary” people breaking into the pinnacle of state sovereignty, creating a carnival that momentarily suspended the rules of public life.
Not too far above:
That is why it is crucial not just to dismiss the state as the instrument of domination. In natural disasters, public health catastrophes and periods of social unrest, progressive forces must try and seize state power and use it, not only to calm people’s fears in times of emergency, but also to fight those fears – racist, xenophobic, sexist, anti-progressive – artificially concocted to keep populations in check.
Yet if the left disregards public safety, it is conceding to the enemy an important domain of dissatisfaction that, in a time of anarchy, pushes people to the right. Everyday insecurity hurts the poor much more than the rich who live calmly in their gated communities.
Bruh you just associated the right with unrest, then associated it with law and order. It's almost like "pushing people right" doesn't have much to do with reason and doesn't require any actual opposition
I'll have to give that a watch. My capitalist realism brok juste a few months before the Hexbear zeitgeist rightfully turned on him, so I could use a rundown
Seriously? Evoking Fanon to argue for a stronger France?
Evoking the Internationale, which Fanon got his title from.
Oh, interesting. Less hilarious but interesting
Oh my god
Not too far above:
I can't with this joker
Bruh you just associated the right with unrest, then associated it with law and order. It's almost like "pushing people right" doesn't have much to do with reason and doesn't require any actual opposition
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I think he's making fun of Franz Fanon, folks tend not to know how deep this dudes ideological perversions go
I'll have to give that a watch. My capitalist realism brok juste a few months before the Hexbear zeitgeist rightfully turned on him, so I could use a rundown