We are
witnessing a historical reversal in France, where the ancient
political spectrum is exploding into pieces as new fractures appear. Because of
the intensive storm of media propaganda which has recently almost drowned the
nation, the French can now perceive nothing more than the essential markers and cling to red lines which no longer exist. However, the facts
are clear, and certain evolutions are predictable.
After a very agitated electoral campaign, the French chose
Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen for the second round of the Presidential
election.
Already, almost all the losing candidates, with the exception of
Jean-Luc Melenchon – and that’s no accident – have appealed to their followers
to support Macron, who should then be easily elected.
The two major historical parties which have governed France
since the beginning of the Fifth Republique – Les Republicains (ex-Gaullists)
and the Parti Socialist (ex-Jaurèsians) – have been beaten. A newcomer, En
Marche !, has made it to first place on the podium, facing the Front National.
Is there
fascist candidate?
This is not the first time that this sort of cleavage has
occurred in the history of France – on one hand, a partisan of an alliance with
what seems for the moment to be the world’s greatest power (the United States),
and on the other, a movement seeking national independence – on one hand, the
totality of the ruling class, without notable exceptions, and on the other, a
party cobbled together of various bits and pieces, composed mostly of
proletarians, two-thirds of whom come from the right wing and one-third from
the left.
Evidently, the next French President will be Mr. Macron – a man
from the Banque Rothschild & Cie, now supported by the totality of the
business leaders of the CAC40.
However, whether our prejudices like it or not, the unanimity of
the power of money is the fundamental characteristic of fascist parties.
This unanimity of Grand Capital is always accompanied by a
National unity which erases the differences. In order to become equal, we must
become identical. This is what President Hollande began with the law « Marriage
for all », in 2012-13. Presented as establishing equality between citizens,
whatever their sexual orientation, it posited de facto that the needs of couples
with children are the same as those of gay couples. And yet there were several
other more intelligent solutions. The opposition to this law led to a number of
very important demonstrations, but they, unfortunately, failed to provide any
other proposition and were sometimes mixed with homophobic slogans.
Identically,
the attack against Charlie-Hebdo was
celebrated to the chant of « I am Charlie! », and those citizens who declared
that they were « not Charlie » were prosecuted.
It is a shame that the French people do not react either against
the unanimity of Grand Capital nor against the injunctions to use the same
judicial techniques and to favor the same slogans. On the contrary, they insist
on considering the current Front National as « fascist », with no other
argument than its ancient past.
Can a
fascist candidate be resisted?
In the majority, the French think that Emmanuel Macron will be a
President à la Sarkozy and à la Hollande, men who will pursue their political
beliefs. They, therefore, expect to see their country increasingly decline.
They accept this curse, thinking that in this way, they will evacuate the
menace of the extreme right.
Many of them remember that at its creation, the Front National
gathered together the losers of the Second World War and the losers of the
social politics of the colonization of Algeria. They focused on the figures of
a few men who had collaborated with the Nazi occupier, without seeing that the
Front National of today has absolutely nothing in common with those people.
They persist in holding Second-Lieutenant Jean-Marie Le Pen (Marine’s father)
responsible for the Algerian tragedy and exonerating from their
responsibilities the Socialist leaders of the time, particularly their dreadful
Minister of the Interior, François Mitterrand.
No-one remembers that in 1940, it was a Fascist minister,
General Charles De Gaulle, who refused the shameful armistice with Nazi
Germany. This man, the official heir apparent of Marechal Philippe Petain (who
was his daughter’s godfather), charged into the Resistance alone. Struggling
against his education and his prejudices, he slowly gathered around himself,
against the wishes of his ex-mentor, French people from all horizons to defend
the Republic. He linked up with a left-wing personality, Jean Moulin, who, a
few years earlier, had secretly embezzled money from the Minister of the
Marine, and trafficked weapons with which to support the Spanish Republicans
against the fascists.
No-one remembers that a colleague of De Gaulle, Robert Schuman,
wrote his signature on the armistice of shame, then, a few years later, founded
the European Economic Community (currently the European Union) – a
supra-national organisation based on the Nazi model of the « New European Order
», against the Soviet Union and today against Russia.
The
Obama-Clinton model
Emmanuel Macron has received the strong support of ex-US
President Barack Obama and has gathered a team for foreign policy composed of
the main neoconservative diplomats. He makes no secret of supporting the
external politics of the US Democratic Party.
Barack Obama, although he presented his foreign policy with a
rhetoric which was diametrically opposed to that of his predecessor, the
Republican George W. Bush, in practice followed his lead in all points. The two
men successively continued the same plan for the destruction of the societies
of the Greater Middle East – a plan which has already caused more than 3
million deaths. Emmanuel Macron supports this policy, although we do not yet
know whether he intends to justify it by speaking of « democratisation » or «
spontaneous revolution ».
If Hillary Clinton was beaten during the US election, Emmanuel
Macron had to be elected in France.
Nothing proves that Marine Le Pen will be capable of playing the
rôle of Charles De Gaulle, but three things are certain:
Just as in 1940, the British,
choking back their disgust, welcomed De Gaulle to London, today Russia could
support Le Pen. Just as in 1939, only a few
Communists braved the orders of their party and joined the Resistance, there
will only be a few of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s partisans who will take that step.
But as from the Nazi attack on the URSS, it was the whole Communist party who
supported De Gaulle and formed the majority of the Resistance. There is no
doubt that in the years to come, Mélenchon will fight side by side with Le Pen. Emmanuel Macron will never
understand people who resist the domination of their homeland. So he will not
understand any better the people of the Greater Middle East who struggle for
real independence alongside Hezbollah, the Syrian Arab Republic and the Islamic
Republic of Iran.
French
intellectual, founder and chairman of Voltaire Network and the Axis for Peace
Conference. His columns specializing in international relations feature in
daily newspapers and weekly magazines in Arabic, Spanish and Russian. His last
two books published in English : 9/11 the Big Lie and Pentagate.
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