Social democracy has “no longer any meaning” and must give way to a “progressivism” on the left, defends the Minister of Labor in a column in the Sunday newspaper.
“We will not rebuild social democracy!“says the ex-socialist Olivier Dussopt in a column in the Journal du Dimanche, “for the simple and good reason that the lazy shifts towards the extreme left, in a counter-historical movement, have taken away its meaning from the word: it no longer has any meaning and no longer indicates a direction“. And Olivier Dussopt to call for “turn a page and fully claim progressivism“, defined as the aspiration to progress “social, societal and scientific, industrial and human, educational and environmental“.
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The progressivismputs the whole of society in motion, never in a forced march, but in dialogue, consultation, listening; a method which, under the leadership of the President of the Republic, will support the development of our pay-as-you-go pension system“, he continues. “A development that should allow new progress such as the increase in small pensions to 1,100 euros, as important for social justice as was the introduction of the Smic.»
“Progressivism has the opportunity to express itself within Renaissance“, he wants to believe:”It has its place. But it will not stop there, simply because great aspirations always go beyond party lines. In this logic, it is now necessary that the progressives meet, invent and propose. They have to speak to each other clearly, to speak clearly to the French.»
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