The word, imported from the imaginary of the right, set fire to the powder. It is also yet another chapter in the more general debate on the disenchantment of a part of the popular classes for the left parties.
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At the feast of humanity, Fabien Roussel succeeded in making the “buzz” and to line up all the members of the new Ecological and Social People’s Union (NUPES), including those from his own camp. The exit of the national secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF) on “the left of work” against “the left of the [and] social minima” allocations “will have fueled the chronicle all weekend, in Brétigny-sur-Orge ( Essonne), and aroused a wind of hostile reactions.
Saturday September 10, Jean-Luc Mélenchon stood out from the communist leader, by returning the status of assisted to large companies which received “140 billion euros” during the health crisis. “The assistantship is them,” he launched during his speech, recalling his desire to “tax superprofits”. A few hours later, Mathilde Panot won his arrow with “Fraternité” against Fabien Roussel. “We cannot fight neither the Liberals nor the extreme right by taking up their words,” launched the deputy of rebellious France (LFI), immediately ovationed.
“Assistantnat”, what does this word anchored on the right and the far right do in the start of the Communists and the left in general? “There is the obvious observation that everyone is confronted: the RN [National Rally] is established among the workers, details the historian of the PCF, Roger Martelli. This category has the feeling of being despised. It is A population attempted by the idea that one is in an assistance society. “A paradox in the form of a drama for a party, which, historically, was that of the working class.
On the left, two deputies speak “assistantship”; They campaigned against the RN in districts in northern France, former mining pools: Fabien Roussel and François Ruffin. However, the second was dissociated from the first. “Opposing France that works on France des Allocs is not my words,” reacted the deputy for the Somme on Twitter .
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If the way of expressing this theme differs on the substance, their analysis has many common points. “From” Party of employees “, here we are, in the common spirit, the” Party of assisted “, writes François Ruffin in his latest book, I write to you from the front of the Somme (Les Links that release, 144 pages , 10 euros). The “assistantship” becomes the sesame to access the reading grid of the world of RN.
Sociologist Olivier Schwartz notably theorized this new social conscience known as “triangular”, in his text entitled “Do we still live in a class society?” : for the popular classes, “the feeling of being not only subjected to a pressure coming from the top, But also at a pressure from the bottom, coming lower than them “. The new working -class world, rather than being summed up in the opposition between rich and poor, would now include the poorest than oneself, the “assisted” and the “Soc ‘”, perceived with resentment by the poor workers not touching ‘State aid.
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