Marc Salomone/ salomone.marc@neuf.fr / blog: madic50 / Book: Les deux Formes
Monday May 20, 2024
IMPRESSIONS ON THE 2024 EUROPEAN CAMPAIGN OF LÉON DEFFONTAINES, HEAD OF THE LIST OF THE FRENCH COMMUNIST PARTY
Deffontaines:
“everything is good to avoid talking about the real issues that are being asked of us, namely the question of rising electricity bills, for example.” “For too long, the left has been divided over social debates and has obscured the social question, I want to make it a priority again.”
Deffontaines has the language of an angry trade unionist who seizes politics to shout his powerlessness in the public square.
In doing so, he cuts himself off from political thought and action.
No one will send Deffontaines to Brussels because at the conclusion of his description of the economic policy of the European Union (EU), he declares emphatically: “I say it: let this Europe die!”.
It is a magical, incantatory, imprecatory formula.
Commonly speaking, this is bistro talk. He could also say: fuck this Europe and all other synonyms.
On the other hand, he could report on the relations of the French Communist Party (PCF) with all European communist and democratic parties, announce upcoming European gatherings, demand respect for freedom of association and assembly in Europe as a prerequisite for functioning. democracy of the EU.
Voting for his list could be a guarantee of freedom of information through the release of Julien Assange tortured in England on behalf of the United States or for that of Selahattin Demirtas, sentenced to 42 years in prison by Turkish justice.
Instead, he casts the curse of the despairing on the unattainable victors.
No one will send Deffontaines to Brussels to celebrate the No vote in the 2005 referendum. It was a one-off meeting which never had any political follow-up under this composite gathering of often opposing interests.
This makes two major points of his campaign which are based on wind, on the evocation of a psychological fact (discontent with the EU) or the memory of a victory without a future (2005) of which he presents the verbal reminiscence and resonant like the presence of a tangible reality of which he would be the manipulator.
In fact, he weakens himself personally by taking the form of a huckster who manipulates wind.
He also wants to be elected to invalidate the well-known “3%” rule.
She is a sea serpent of European technocratism. It’s a chatter that leads to other endless chatter.
The question of French debt is not due to this rule which is itself only one of the consequences of the supremacy of private property and the rejection of the State.
On the other hand, he could attack the founding principle of the Treaty of Rome of “free and undistorted competition”. It's really a political question.
Glucksmann allows himself to criticize, even hypocritically, this rule of the Treaty of Rome.
But he's in politics, he has a clearly defined class base, and he's at 14%.
When he features a popular reference, he says: “Eurogagas tell us every day that Europe is an opportunity. Go tell it to the young people of Seine-Saint-Denis who see the high schools degraded! »
This comparison of the state of schools in Seine-Saint-Denis with the EU's results proves nothing. It is a new gesticulation of empty words.
On the other hand, for all French people, it is an allegiance to Muslim communitarianism.
He also gave his opinion on immigration. He is in favor of welcoming migrants based on the sole requirement of welcoming them well.
In one demagogic sentence, Deffontaines, an expert in manipulation of the void, excludes himself from the political reference of millions of French European voters.
French Muslims will not vote for him because he is not openly communitarian and they are for the EU and its financial advantages for minorities.
He wants to go to Brussels for “purchasing power” and “the real issues” are “the question of rising electricity bills, for example.”
Likewise, it does not occur to him that electricity bills depend on the war in Ukraine. Which is no longer union but political. No one is interested in his imaginary budgetary and subsidy tinkering.
This lack of detour through Ukraine regarding questions of purchasing power excludes it from the popular political debate. The one who relinks European policy to purchasing power.
He also gave his opinion on the Ukrainian war. It is aligned with NATO; like many Marxist groups.
He therefore has nothing more to say on the subject except that at the end of the war he is for peace. Like everyone.
This submission is all the more incomprehensible since the German magazine Die Welt has just put back on the agenda a peace discussion which took place in March 2022 in Turkey between the Russians, the Ukrainians, in the presence of the Americans. She was allegedly blocked in her conclusions by Boris Johnson, British Prime Minister.
The communists have available, without copyright, the political logic of President Kennedy, exposed on June 10, 1963.
What is Kennedy compared to Johnson?
In his Paris meeting on May 16, his companion, Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the PCF, launched “a vibrant appeal for Palestine” which Léon Deffontaines did not speak about.
Which reinforces the inclusion of the latter, who did not speak about Ukraine, in the subordination to communitarian, or corporatist, or union networks.
Some would say, helpless.
What is astonishing throughout the speeches is the absence of reference to women.
While they burst onto the screen, through the news and their activism (with MeToo, for example). He has nothing to tell them.
Legal parity, that is to say the joint, equal, legal, universal presence of both sexes in all management bodies of public and associated authorities, is not a fight worthy of attention for ordinary macho people. which must surround this candidate.
It is true that women make up only 50% of the electorate and that they are mainly concerned about "the purse strings", "purchasing power", much more than about the nonsense of Power (political and administrative ).
It’s appalling.
Deffontaines is the archetype of the exclusive inscription in the Economic Form, that of superstructures and infrastructures, as described by Marx.
Except that this inscription is practiced as a confinement, an exclusive reference to any other reality.
The question of women, which is part of the Form of the link or administrative form, of the infinite series of men and women, of the 1-0 of computing, is therefore not taken into account.
The same goes for religions, communitarianism, ideologies, etc. which are classified as non-essential causes.
The PCF is not even mentioned in the voting intentions of teachers. While the question of purchasing power is at the heart of all their debates. They don't hear it.
I dealt with this question in the book “The Two Forms” (Amazon ed.).
Blind, helpless, and proud of it.
This blindness primarily concerns all communists.
Engels already pointed out in the 19th century that communists were obsessed with economics and class struggle.
He specified that this was only decisive in the last instance.
This economic exclusivism which was an advantage during the period of industrialization and the colonies has become a handicap since the 1970s.
The other schools of thought have the advantage over the communists of attaching importance to religion, that is to say to the Form of the link or Administrative Form.
That they draw reactionary conclusions does not change anything regarding their ability to grasp the reality of social movements.
The manipulation of Polish society based on religion is a perfect example.
But do communist cadres have anything to learn from anyone?
The difference between the PCF list and the other lists is that they have a certain social base, even if ideologically defined.
Deffontaines shows that the PCF no longer has any.
He is not misunderstood, he does not address anyone.
Deffontaines clearly told the unemployed Colombe that he took note of the abandonment of the working classes by the left. However, he did not specify which social classes he himself associated with.
BALANCE SHEET
Deffontain makes himself invisible when it comes to purchasing power by being incapable of linking its decline to the war in Ukraine.
Ditto on women by saying nothing.
Ditto for Ukraine by aligning with NATO.
On the EU by clinging to this role play of the 3% instead of going into the hard part of the Treaty of Rome.
Likewise by not saying a word about public and political freedoms in Europe.
He vomits Europe but does not invite voters to support any of the fights he is waging in Europe by electing his list to the European Parliament.
Through his gratuitous comments on Palestine during his meeting, he is embedding himself in corporatism over which he has no control.
He artificially cuts himself off from all those who have an inclination or interest to also support Israel without capturing the attention of those who are influenced by communitarianism.
The unemployed Colombe does not want to “destruct” the EU. She wants to live.
He's smart, he slips through the cracks, he forbids anyone to accuse him of anything.
And since no one sees him, no one votes for him.
What he says is undoubtedly sometimes true, sometimes false, in any case never really real.
His speech evokes facts without convincing the speaker's abilities to manipulate their reality.
He said things but what does he do with them or take us? We do not know anything.
A talented young man is fading before our eyes and with him the party whose hopes he carries.
It will become so common for this party to have nothing really real to say that it will fade and disappear without anyone paying attention.
Certainly, the PCF bears all the weight and consequences of the 1994 capitulation.
But the future is not written anywhere and will those who support this young communist executive know how to think about it?
Marc SALOMONE
