To understand the divisions of the left and the collapse that follows today, a little history is useful.
It was in January 1999, in
Le Monde
, that Philippe Sollers launched his virulent attack against
"moldy France"
, in short: against republicanism and universalism which was then embodied by the Minister of the Interior, Jean-Pierre Chevènement .
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Let us recall, for those who would have forgotten the debates which already fractured the left at the time, in what terms Sollers, who was in France with Alain Badiou the most ardent thurifer of the
Little Red Book
of Mao and of a
"cultural revolution"
which nevertheless caused more than 60 million deaths, then attacked Chevènement, but in passing also, for good measure, Régis Debray:
"The moldy France has always hated, pell-mell, the Germans, the English, Jews, Arabs, foreigners in general, modern art, intellectual hairstylists, women who are too independent… Our Minister of the Interior
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