2024-09-07 03:30:07
BOOK. “Power is a mirror for the left, it attracts as much as it fears it. This ambivalence, the eternal back and forth characterizes his history”. In his new job – The Challenge of Government, Poverty and Power of the Dreyfus Affair to the Present Day (Perrin, 416 p., €23), François Hollande explains, from the first two sentences, the load equation to which the left side, as “from a conflict perspective”, that we have faced since the 19th century.
“Is the left determined to protest, to resist, to defeat destructive and unjust capitalism” or “to do his part in repairing the damage of the order he fought?”, pretending to question François Hollande, as if he were reiterating the New Popular Front (NFP), caught between the indifference of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the desire for a compromise of the Socialist Party. For François Hollande, these questions are just rhetoric. In his book, the former president responded immediately, expressing his love for social democracy, which made it possible to install the system. “the basics” of our societies, such as labor law, secularism, public schools or social security. Radicalism must stop, but remain on the margins.
From the Congressional Revolution of 1920, which led to the emergence of the Socialist Party and the Communist Party, to the Popular Front, through the two-seven-year term of François Mitterrand, and “very poor” by Lionel Jospin, until the last upheavals of the NFP, the former head of state returned in time and set out to demonstrate, through history, the relevance of his thesis. That was left which wins when its center is dug in the reformist, rather than radical. From the beginning of the 20th century, this duality was in two people, that of Jean Jaurès, who wanted to rule in the name of the reunification of the Republic, and Jules Guesdes who would not change, who said that they should avoid him. “bourgeois state”.
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But the success of the left is also a combination of two opposing groups, which feed on each other. The author returns to the Popular Front and its social victories, so important from the beginning of the NFP, managed by Léon Blum who ” evaluate both words », and succeeded in increasing radicalism as well “commit to ensure stability and progress”. For Hollande, it cannot be compared to the NFP, because, in 1936, the company was taken away. “Irreparable and Pop”, he wrote in reference to the social movements of the time. Also, Blum “convince yourself to use force”while Insoumis “Despite their declarations”want alone “acceleration of calendar celebrations”.
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