Published last year Sortir de notre impuissance politique, (Fayard) was a short, strong polemic on the stagnation of the Left. The philosopher and academic Geoffroy de Lagasnerie,<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffroy_de_Lagasnerie> interviewed on France Inter argued that left wing politics had become “ritualised” around certain forms of defensive action. Left wing activists operated ” more like automatons than strategists. We resort to ritual, instituted forms of action: demonstrations, strikes, occupations , even violent riots…”without any form of offensive strategy that can bring about a new society. “We go out in the streets, we take selfies on Instagram, but we do not act politically”.
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