All-black-clad protesters harassed marching lawmakers and supporters of France's moderate left Socialist Party (PS) on Thursday, marring Paris's Labour Day procession as hundreds of thousands rallied across the country.- 'Worried about Trump' -
The hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) party sought to distance itself from the violence towards PS lawmakers.
I have no idea of the internals of French politics, I’ve never heard of any of these people. My assumption (based on absolutely no evidence, just on pattern recognition) is that this is the result on some level of Russian propaganda infiltrating French politics and persuading every grouping that isn’t their favored mini-Nazis to attack one another and become consumed with infighting and destroy their own effectiveness. That’s why I thought it was important.
Assigning “good guys” and “bad guys” among the different groupings or picking the right labels for them, to me, misses the broader point.
Sadly we do not need the russians to fight each other
Even is they are part of the rise of political violence
The Parti Socialiste ruled France a few years they are often pictured as the “traitors party” since they sided with corporate interest. The actual goverment (from pædo apologists to more classic far right) escaped a no confidence vote thanks to them.
Oh, I definitely wasn’t saying that. Part of the reason it works is that it’s exploiting existing divisions.
But, from my limited yank’s perspective, it seems like 10 years ago it was “let’s have a party in the street and fuck up the people exploiting all of us.” That sounds great. Now it’s “let’s have the left fuck up the left, they’re awful traitors” which is pretty much precisely what’s been happening in every other country that’s anti-Russia-aligned, all at the same time. And it usually leads, for obvious reasons, to the right taking power after it’s gone on long enough.
Fighting the center-left because you hate that they aligned with corporate interests sounds like it makes sense, but if the ultimate end result is someone who is aligned with corporate interests 10 times more so takes power, it starts to look in retrospect like it was counterproductive.
Yeah, I heard the same thing about Biden. Constantly. Even though it was totally imaginary.
Like I say, I have no idea about the internals and I could be totally off base. I’m just basing it on pattern recognition in terms of the broad strokes.