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A large part of the cultural and urban elite is fascinated by the radicalism of La France insoumise. Investigation into anti-capitalist soft power.
By Said Mahrane
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Iyou’re back. Here they are again, those of whom Jean Cau, son of peasants and former private secretary of Jean-Paul Sartre, spoke in Parishioners. “First a child among the poor, then a man among the bourgeois, I will always believe that childhood was my truth and adulthood my carnival”, he wrote at the time of breaking with the existentialist left of the 1960s, which still reigned over “a few acres” of Saint-Germain-des-Pres. What was this carnival? The spectacle of an Oedipal bourgeoisie which spoke of the enemy without guessing that it was speaking of its fathers, which advocated the class struggle having read Marx but above all Freud, which idealized the figure of the proletarian without ever having seen it otherwise only at his service, at Lipp’s or at home.
So here they are again. With…
Lafargue Raphael/ABACA – Gérard AIME/GAMMA-RAPHO – JOEL SAGET/AFP – SIPA – MAXIME BIHOREAU/SIPA – ©Basso CANNARSA/opale.photo – Jacques BENAROCH/SIPA – LAURENT BENHAMOU/SIPA – Jaak Moineau//SIPA – Max BAUWENS /REA – Lydie Lecarpentier/REA FOR “LE POINT” – Adventurer Patrick/ABACA FOR “LE POINT” (x2) – Corentin Fohlen/ Divergence.