“It’s an obscurantism to ask to work more to produce more, no, we must work less to work better and everyone,” said the leader of France Insoumise.
The leader of rebellious France Jean-Luc Mélenchon saw on Sunday February 5 in the pension reform the traces of a “obscurantism“neoliberal,”against historical progress“.
“It is an obscurantism to ask to work more to produce more, no, we must work less to work all and better“, declared the former candidate for the Élysée at the launch of his institute La Boétie, a research and training foundation “entirely at the service of the critical thought of the capitalist system», which he chairs.
The pension reform, which notably provides for the decline of the retirement age to 64 instead of 62 today, arrives Monday in the hemicycle of the National Assembly, while it is contested in the street by the all the unions.
“The refusal of a world”
“Work better, work less, without producing more“Insisted Jean-Luc Mélenchon, for”reduce the incredible share of waste in production, distribution and consumption“. “Neoliberal ideology is a system of ideas at the service of a politico-economic regime that reduces human beings to a single function: (…) to be a customer“, he lambasted.
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He recalled the two days of action planned by the unions on Tuesday and Saturday against the reform project, expecting “a great moment of popular spirit“. “The refusal of retirement at 64 – it seems, but you all know that will be more – is the refusal of a world (…)neoliberal, he hammered.