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Fascinating how french billionaire's press managed to mandate the hard-left depreciative even in international news now
LFI are mostly former socialists trying to keep they electoral mandate. We have far-left parties here: NPA want to defund the police, LO want to nationalize the shit out of our oligarchs LFI want check note bring back conscription so the youngsters will start liking the country again
What does this mean sorry?
It mean LFI is a classic centre-left organisation a few more leftist than the PS (the ones getting assaulted there) it is a fallacy to call it far nor hard-left
Also it was not an LFI parade it was the unions demonstration where politcals parties usually have a stand on the sidewalk.
Asking LFI what the agression was about is part of a broader red-scare campaign. The agressor were (probably) a far-left group but calling it LFI is a conspiracy theorie
I have no idea of the internals of French politics, I've never heard of any of these people. My assumption (based on absolutely no evidence, just on pattern recognition) is that this is the result on some level of Russian propaganda infiltrating French politics and persuading every grouping that isn't their favored mini-Nazis to attack one another and become consumed with infighting and destroy their own effectiveness. That's why I thought it was important.
Assigning "good guys" and "bad guys" among the different groupings or picking the right labels for them, to me, misses the broader point.
Sadly we do not need the russians to fight each other
Even is they are part of the rise of political violence
The Parti Socialiste ruled France a few years they are often pictured as the "traitors party" since they sided with corporate interest. The actual goverment (from pædo apologists to more classic far right) escaped a no confidence vote thanks to them.
Oh, I definitely wasn’t saying that. Part of the reason it works is that it’s exploiting existing divisions.
But, from my limited yank’s perspective, it seems like 10 years ago it was "let’s have a party in the street and fuck up the people exploiting all of us." That sounds great. Now it's "let's have the left fuck up the left, they're awful traitors" which is pretty much precisely what's been happening in every other country that's anti-Russia-aligned, all at the same time. And it usually leads, for obvious reasons, to the right taking power after it's gone on long enough.
Fighting the center-left because you hate that they aligned with corporate interests sounds like it makes sense, but if the ultimate end result is someone who is aligned with corporate interests 10 times more so takes power, it starts to look in retrospect like it was counterproductive.
Yeah, I heard the same thing about Biden. Constantly. Even though it was totally imaginary.
Like I say, I have no idea about the internals and I could be totally off base. I'm just basing it on pattern recognition in terms of the broad strokes.