Parisians took to the streets in a massive demonstration with slogans and banners against France’s involvement in the Ukrainian conflict, as well as in favor of the country’s withdrawal from the European Union and NATO.
In addition to numerous signs with the word “Frexit,” others could be seen that read: “Macron, we will not die for Ukraine!”
💬 “I am Russia, I am France, I am Ukraine. Stop European state terrorism. The European Union kills. Paris — Frexit,” read another banner.
The march was organized by the Patriots party.
Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1999909144657113088/vid/avc1/1920x1080/-_-dFzdxM1sem5Xh.mp4
Source -> https://xcancel.com/SputnikMundo/status/1999927805191037023#m
Source from France -> https://xcancel.com/f_philippot/status/1999894336142540894#m
But you’re framing it as if it’s something to support :/
i don’t think i did? either way, why shouldn’t we pragmatically support it? a divided Europe is better for the world overall imo. brexit was a funny development. EU states being cannibalized by the US might lead to something interesting.
My opinion on the EU exit is as follows:
Support exiting the EU but distance yourselves from reactionaries who want to leave the EU for nationalistic grounds.
So you’d march together with the reactionary far-right to leave the EU, but then have a banner saying “We’re different cuz we’re better”?
No, I would not march together with reactionaries on this. The left needs to form a 3rd front against both reactionary nationalism and neoliberalism
So, a Frexit, just differently. That won’t confuse the ordinary prol.
We, as communists, should not be riding the coattails of reactionaries just because the proletariat is currently reactionary. We should be speaking to their material grievances directly rather than attempt to divert a reactionary slogan to the left. As for “not confusing the ordinary prole,” is it not our job as Marxists to educate the proletariat towards class consciousness? Tailing reactionaries does the opposite and is an attempt to divert false consciousness towards a revolution rather than building true consciousness. This comment here is making the assumption that the proletariat is dumb and we need to dumb down our message rather than teach them the true source instead of using vague terms like “globalism.”
And so we march into our demise with theory-purity, selling Trotzkysit newspapers and educating everyone so they have a degree in ML, whether they want or not (if they don’t want, they are not worth it I guess) because we’re too good to meet the masses of the proletariat where they are.
What you’re “assuming” is your own reading into the topic. If many people have the right feeling to get out of the EU, we shouldn’t be arrogant and not meet them where they are but join them and then teach them why the right-wing is based on fiction and lies.
Because what were doing right now in Western Europe obviously doesn’t work. Or did I miss the mass demonstrations of communists (not leftists) lately? Isn’t it dogmatic to say we should keep doing what doesn’t work?