Radical French Left

Jan 31, 2009 6:32 PM

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Across France, Left-Wing parties are gaining support behind the slogans of anti-capitalism. Could this be a sign of hope for our cause???
For me it is....

"Forged in darkness with wheat harvested from Hell's half acre. Baked by Beelzabub; slathered with mayonnaise beaten from the evil eggs of dark chickens, force-fed to dogs by the hands of a one-eyed madman. Cheese boiled from the rancid utters of fanged cows. Layered with 666 separate meats from an animal which has maggots for blood."
ATHF

Feb 5, 2009 12:34 PM

AndreiKuznetsov

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Feb 2009

The PCF (French Communist Party) has always been full of decrepit revisionism and have more often than not sided against the workers and national liberation movements in the name of "respectability" and "moderation".

I personally support (albeit critically) the Communist Party of France (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist) and am currently studying more of Dr. Alain Badiou, an interesting Marxist-Leninist-Maoist thinker whose theories on the nature of the Party in society, being and event, and how ideas emerge in society should be analyzed closely.

May 6, 2022 11:00 AM

Moonspeak

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Well.

Here we are ^^

Frog here, necroing this just for an update :

The left is a bit in shambles here, but news is they are kinda uniting around Mélanchon, who is the "radical" candidate and has destroyed the traditional socialist party (guess you don't have that many socialist voters when you suck capitalist dicks, strangely enough).

We're not beaten yet in the political fight, but the moment is a bit critical.

Mélanchon is a republican, not a marxist, and the traditional communist party (PCF) is kinda dead since a thousand years.

Anarchists and other radicals don't fare better, the strategical vote is already fucking them in the ass big time.

All in all, I'd say France Insoumise (Mélanchon and co) stays our best bet for now, we just need to show that proletarian are the one who should be listened, not the rich kids playing leftist just to anger their daddies. Proletarian are the one getting fucked, they are the one actually fighting, they are the ones in the Union marching and waiting for an uprise.

The marxist culture/tradition is still strong here, thank god (yeah, I say god too, bad habit).

But many of the leaders of that fight are now old, we need young blood to revive this thing.

So I say to my french comrades...

Viendez les gars, on leur montre comment on fait pour faire tout péter ! ;)

So if you can, whoever you are, join some Union (CGT les potos français, vous gourez pas, les autres ont été créés et financés par les patrons pour diviser le mouvement) even if you don't work yet.

You don't have to pay anything right away, just being there from time to time is a great help for us, it means the message is being heard.

We also need to get in touch, organization is key there !

Stay strong guys !

May 15, 2022 9:46 PM

aremarf

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I'm from Asia so I don't have a clue about the finer details of what happened in France. But I did pay attention to the recent elections and truth be told, I was eager enough to see France change its political course that a Macron upset at the price of a Le Pen presidency seemed.... acceptable... (given that no leftist candidate was available)

This might sound extreme... but when I look at American politics and how their so-called left has abandoned workers and their traditional priorities... I don't think Trump was all that bad for them. At least it woke up a constituency which is starting to be critical of "the government-military-media-industrial-complex aka oligarchs-wielding-power-over-govt".

And... this is ultimately the left's fault, for abandoning their mission, in every country. I recall clearly I saw Greek voters put Syriza in power and how they reneged on their electoral promises.

But well, easy for me to say, I'm living in a one-party state where there's only been a single party in power since the 1960s (which they obtained by first allying with the communists, and then detaining all their leaders under some emergency powers - there was a violent communist revolution at the time, the Malayan Emergency). So I don't "do" any politics here in Singapore... it's sort of repressive (maybe that's just my excuse for not doing much). BTW our Worker's Party is the main opposition party with about 40% of the votes and 10% of the seats. It's complicated.

Well, all the best to France and the left anywhere they are in the world!

May 16, 2022 3:17 AM

Moonspeak

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@aremarf Thanks ^^

Also yeah, I did have this conversation IRL with a couple of old american scientists, it seems Trump is seen as a bigger danger to them than it was for the rest of the world.

As far as I'm concerned, with Sanders eliminated in 2016, Trump was still a nice change of pace from the usual expansionism of the US administration. A better president than Bush at least, that's for sure.

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