Will we necessarily have to go through a revolution to save the planet? This is what Jean-Luc Mélenchon theorizes. L'Insoumise redetailed it on Tuesday, during the "People's Summit" in Brussels. A gathering that brings together leaders of Latin American and Caribbean states (CELAC) and European figures of the left. "I'm old enough to remember when we thought we had time. If we failed in one election, we would end up in the next, and we would build, with the infinite patience of popular circles. Now we have no more time, we only have deadlines," he said.
"Capitalism, an obscurantism"
As a result, according to the former LFI candidate in the presidential election, "only revolutionary and subversive action, which ensures the break with capitalism, can allow us to pull humanity out of the impasse". Otherwise, "capitalism", which is "incapable of correcting itself, of controlling itself", will lead to "catastrophe". "Capital feeds on the destruction it causes. Capital will not be able to stop", warned Jean-Luc Mélenchon who wants to prevent "the continuation of an absurd system which, as Marx said, exhausts man and nature".
For the Unsubmissive, climate change is already so "irreversible" that humanity will "enter an era of absolute climate uncertainty". "It is because the climate had stabilized, that human activities were able to stabilize and organize," he said. By insisting: "Capitalism is an obscurantism because it prevents us from considering from a rational point of view, the rational solutions that we should bring".