Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 11:31:24 -0500
From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: Political earthquake in France


>BodySack makes his position clear:
>
>>	Once again, and it won't be the last time, Keynesian,
>>noblesse-oblige, Euro-socialism is DEAD.  Your boy Blair stabbed it
>>through, St.  George-like, when he saw it was weak and now it's dead.
>>What you are watching is the flailing of the far-right demamgogues as they
>>lose their base entirely to the capitalist center.  In teh capitalist
>>triumph, the middle class has moved to the left (hence Jospin), but the
>>left has been running towards the center. The far-right is now the locus
>>of discontent because left ideology is moribund and the far left is
>>marginalized.
>>
>>
>>	I think that France is not ahead of the curve but behind the
>>curve.
>
>This may or may not be borne out by events. We'll see.
>
>In the meantime, Le Monde, which makes the NYT look like a comic, ran a
>headline after the events I described that read: "The UDF is dead".
>
>In general, I think that as contradictory interests come into more openly
>antagonistic conflict in society, their political expression will become
>more openly antagonistic. If they become too disruptive, the bourgeoisie
>will seek a Bonapartist solution, as France has done before with de Gaulle.
>Only it was de Gaulle's regime that was shaken to its foundations in 1968,
>and the current French regime is still stuck in de Gaulle's Bonapartist
>mould -- so where do you go from a collapsing Bonapartist regime?
>
>I think that Body is merely seeing surface waves that appear to him to move
>against the more deeply running tide.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Hugh

Hmm interesting but this is not 1968.Or maybe I am getting old and tired! 
But I will spit in their faces as I go in the grave!

Warm regards
Bob



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