Sovereignism, liberalism, or radical left… Six families of thought in the face of the virus

"Cholera has happened to us in a century of philanthropy, disbelief, newspapers, material administration , " notes Chateaubriand in his Memoirs from beyond the grave . "He walked with a mocking air, in the light of day, in a brand new world . "In 1832, it was believed that under the sun of the July monarchy would finally flourish the flowers of prosperity, urbanization, the scientific revolution, industrialization. Alas, in the belly of Paris, cholera was sowing death as in medieval times. In 2020, it is in the “new world” of the “start-up nation” that the coronavirus wanders with a clever air, forcing an advanced and modern nation, a world power, to resort to the primitive practice of general quarantine. Liberalism, alliance of the bourgeoisies, Saint-Simonism, barricades and now the epidemic: decidedly, the last president of globalization, Emmanuel Macron, will have had more than one thing in common with the last king of France, Louis-Philippe.

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