A-Infos (en) France, UCL AL #346 - Culture, Read Sébastien Fontenelle: Macron and the far right, from the rampart to the boulevard (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Journalist at Blast and Politis, Sébastien Fontenelle looks back on the 
relationship maintained, for 7 years now, by Macron and his government 
with the members and ideas of the far right. Already in 2017, during his 
first election, Macron had assured the voters who had voted in the 
second round for him against the RN, to be aware that their choice was 
not a "blank seal" and that he would "protect the Republic", against 
"extremism". ---- But the facts piled up by the author (commemoration of 
Maurras and Pétain, appointment of passive ministers and reactionary 
convictions, etc.) demonstrate that this word had no value, while the 
implementation of antisocial and of a fierce repression against the 
Yellow Vest movement, the amalgamations and confusing speeches, an 
exercise of power clearly marked by bad faith and manipulation, have 
contributed to the trivialization of nationalist and reactionary theses.

Result: five years later, Marine le Pen garnered 2.6 million more votes! 
Macron still hypocritically claims that this vote "forces him", before 
resuming, a few months later, the rhetoric of the extreme right, 
favoring it, criminalizing and repressing the left opposition, social 
movements and revolts. .

Fontenelle, taking up the concept developed by Ugo Palheta and Ludivine 
Bantigny[1], concludes that the Macron period is really that of the 
fascistization of a republic where the extreme right had never had so 
much weight and where never the exercise of power had never been so 
accompanied by a distortion of reality and massive use of untruths.

His demonstration is striking, even if it teaches nothing to those who 
have carefully followed the political evolution of power in recent 
years[2]. This book, however, has the merit of closing the debate on the 
possibility of a barrier "at the center" against the extreme right in a 
climate of ideological and social hardening. To offer to those who still 
naively think that "right and left at the same time" was not a complete 
illusion.

Hugues (UCL Fougère)

Sébastien Fontenelle, Macron and the far right, from the rampart to the 
boulevard, co-edition Massot and Blast, October 2023, 120 pages, 15.90 
euros.

To validate
[1]Ludivine Bantigny and Ugo Palheta, Facing the Fascist Threat. Getting 
out of authoritarianism, Paris, Textual, 2021.

[2]In particular the UCL, whose numerous press releases on the elections 
or the links between Macron and the far right are available on the site.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Sebastien-Fontenelle-Macron-et-l-extreme-droite-du-rempart-au-boulevard
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