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In parties, the eternal return of training schools

2023-02-03T18:36:55.294Z


Like La France insoumise, political movements are once again relying on these old methods to train their cadres.


In front of a full house in Paris, Jean-Luc Mélenchon quickly resumed his teacher's ease.

This Saturday, January 28, seventy students, handpicked, are returning to the training school of the Institut La Boétie, a think tank attached to La France insoumise.

On the benches of the first promotion, Louise Michel, this handful of young activists - half are under 30 years old - will perhaps become the rebellious executives of tomorrow.

On the program for this first studious weekend: introduction to historical materialism, humanism and the theory of the "era of the people", developed in an eponymous book by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

So many theoretical lessons that reconnect with those, tinged with Marxism, taught in Communist Party schools until the 1990s. From Lionel Jospin to Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, a whole past generation of politicians studied in these structures. internal.

Read also“Not a candidate for my succession”: Mélenchon closes the door to 2027 … but leaves a small opening

Old, almost anachronistic methods...

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Source: lefigaro

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