What if there was something touching about Edwy Plenel?
He may call himself a progressive, but he is stuck in the 20th century.
His emphatic and feverish prose has something of antiquity in the age of intersectional jargonists.
He belongs to an endangered species: far-left boomers.
The one who was born too late to fight real fascism and has spent her whole life trying to reconstitute a threat allowing her to make resistance
His last opuscule
The Call for vigilance against the extreme right
(La Découverte) also takes up the title of a call published in 1993… thirty years ago.
On July 13, 1993, 40 figures in intellectual life published a column in
Le Monde
on the
“trivialization of far-right discourse in public debate”
.
In their sights, the “new right” of Alain de Benoist, eternal fantasy of the Trotskyist who sees in the director of
Elements
the black magician of the French extreme right.
Read alsoThe new intolerants, these judges of thought who dream of silencing those who do not think like them
“What happened to us?”
asks…
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