What was not my stupor by discovering this terrifying grandstand by my friends José Bové and Daniel Cohn-Bendit in Le Monde, qualifying the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts) as a “scam”, nothing less ! They accuse environmentalists of having sold their soul by signing a Faustian pact with the devil Mélenchon.
These old policy of politics, who say they are so attached to the quality of the public debate, should know that the caricature brought to its incandescent only helps to stir up the hatreds on which extremes prospered. According to them, the environmentalists would have become the “accomplices” of Putin, sitting to the right of the “Ubu father of the Kremlin”, a band of sold people who “sacrifice the democratic principle” and freedom, which “immolate” a “collective history” and a “hope” for “obscure electoral negotiations”.
How did the 1968 “hero” and the icon of civil disobedience have come there? Why do the revolutionary of the last decades of the XX e century and the fierce opposing the referendum on the European constitutional treaty of 2005 become “reactionary” using the same words as those they fought if long time ? I don’t understand anymore.
“Elephants” tired
They dissolved the “radicality” they embodied and in which many of us have recognized, in a reformism that capitalism hastened to annex. By screaming with the cubs of Macronie, the “elephants” tired of an old school PS, they participate in a relentlessness against necessarily radical policies and obviously necessary for the fight against social and environmental inequalities. >
Twenty years after the Porto Alegre Social Forum (2001), note that Mélenchon and his family take up the slogan “Another world is possible”, which was our common banner, must be difficult to accept. Eighteen years after having pushed thousands of activists to become GMO voluntary mower to fight the cartelization of global agriculture by multinationals and defend the living, it must be unbearable to see the concept of disobedience reactivated by the signatories of the clouds. When we participated in these actions, we did not have the feeling of betraying our European ideal but, on the contrary, to consolidate the rule of law fixed by the treaties to better fight against the domination of multinationals.
Our visionaries of the 20th e century, would they become blind? By denouncing the extremism of an agreement which meets the expectation of a vast majority of the left and ecology, they have “obviously understood nothing to develop capitalism and the social and environmental challenges to which we do Faced with for several decades, “as economist Thomas Piketty wrote in a column in the world. They have not heard the requirement of a generation which is no longer satisfied with the “small steps”, as Nicolas Hulot, co -author with Muriel Douru, described the comic strips are not enough! (Rustica, 2021), but which awaits this coalition that it reverses the priorities to which the policies of neoliberalism and social democracy have accustomed us.
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