******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. *****************************************************************
Badiou seems to have forgotten that back at the time of the May-June 1968 events similar criticisms were made of both the student movement and of the workers who joined the general strike. After all, university students back then were, among other things, rejecting the proposed education reforms of de Gaulle's government which was trying to "modernize" French higher education. And the workers who went out on general strike had the temerity to go against the leadership of the PCF. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Gary MacLennan via Marxism <[email protected]> Subject: [Marxism] a thought on Badiou on the Gilets Jaunes Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 11:23:13 +1000 ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. ***************************************************************** I am far from an expert on France or French politics and so was very pleased to see Badiou's thoughts on that movement. But I cannot say I agree with his conclusions. I suspect that his characterisation of the movement is fairly correct when it comes to their reactive nostalgic nature. But to condemn them for not waving the red flag seems to me to be highly sectarian. Whatever the nuances of their politics the fact is that they are being brutalised each weekend by the State and that moves me to sympathy at least. Clearly they are a contradictory formation, but surely if one was in France one would be supporting them at some level? comradely Gary ____________________________________________________________ 1 Cup of This (Tonight) Will Burn Your Belly Fat worldhealthlabs.com http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5cab84a3f2a884a31e3ast02vuc _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
