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I am beginning to get a bad feeling about the outcome of the French Presidential elections. The Establishment is congratulating itself on having organized a run off between Le Pen and Macron on the assumption that the Left will have no choice but to vote for Macron. Is this a re-run of the Democratic Party's deep idiocy at being over joyed with the selection of Trump as the Republican candidate? The Democrats saw off Sanders and convinced themselves that no one could possibly support Trump. Well the rest is history. Personally, I am revolted by both of the French Presidential candidates, just as I was with the American scenario, but of course I do not have to vote in either case. In 2002, Chirac defeated Papa Pen in a massive landslide (82.2% of the vote), because the Left voted fro him to keep the Fascists at bay. I doubt that Macron will be able to repeat that performance. That is because Marine Le Pen, unlike her father, has embraced Strasserism and promised the workers relief from neoliberalism. Exactly as Steve Bannon got Trump. to do. The Despicable Macron, very much like the Despicable Clinton, is offering the working class continuity, that is, more of the same. Le Pen is offering a rupture and it might just be that that is enough for the desperate denizens of Precaria comradely Gary _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com