The collapse of the French left, all trends combined, in the voting intentions for the next presidential election raises questions.
What happened to cause left-wing parties to lose so much ground in popular class votes?
Are their programs in question, or the quarrels of egos generating divisions, the too weak stature of their leaders or the painful memory of the failure of François Hollande?
These factors no doubt come into play, but paying too much attention to them blinds us to a deeper cause which has to do with the hiatus between the vision of the world carried by the contemporary left and the nature of the life difficulties encountered by its former supporters.
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What is it to be "on the left"?
Values, no doubt, and first and foremost equality.
But, more radically, a whole vision of the world according to which society would be fundamentally composed of dominant oppressors and oppressed dominated.
The historical action of the left makes sense...
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