We are among those who believe that capitalism is not an insurmountable end. Our time is not doomed, it is uncertain.

By writing The Peoples' Era in 2014—a revolutionary theory for a "citizens' revolution"—Mélenchon performed a Marxist analysis of contemporary capitalism and its crisis. He redefined the notion of "the people", those for whom revolution is now necessary. He shed light on the objective necessity to break with the capitalist order. This break, this politics of rupture, is perfectly communist. And this is the heart beating in all the work of the France Unbowed: to unite the people around a program of rupture.

  • lil_tank [any, he/him]
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    6 days ago

    This article is a controversial take, but I'd say there is some truth to it. France Unbowed is currently the party with the biggest pro-China sentiment, relatively to the extremely anti-China political landscape. From my (small) experience within the movement, I noticed that MLs were able to climb to high consulting positions. There is a clear strategy of using radical Marxist elements as an ideological engine, while using less controversial figures as public speakers.

    The thing that makes us optimistic is how they evolved from moralistic anti-racism to a more militant and anti-colonial approach, and how they explicitly rejected transphobia. It is a movement that evolves, it keeps adapting.

    However we must not ignore that Mélenchon isn't a ML, he is ultimately a moderate as he doesn't fully commit to revolutionary politics. The best we can hope for is that France Unbowed will be the fertile ground from which a new revolutionary movement can grow