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3rd bottle.
As France gears up for this week's elections, I am reminded of what students
said in 1968 :
Making love takes an hour,
Voting takes five minutes
That might well be the French bragging about their sexual prowesses (1 hour !),
but let's face it,
the working class is once again (it's been going on since 1789) being enticed
into a bitter 5 mn climax,
followed by a five year period of despondency.
And the left is once more putting on its prettiest face, while the pimps are
arguing over whether the NPA and the LEft PArty should
form an lliance. The answer in no in most regions. For example, in the
Bouche-du-Rhone, the NPA and the LEft Party have presented competing candidates.
But where I live, we have been graced with a unique, historical, broad front
plateform : The old CP, the NPA, the Left PArty, the Alternative Party and
the Socialist Democarcy Party have all joined forces. This is heart-warming to
many. But depressing to me.
Elections cannot change the status quo. They are built on the idea of a few
representing the majority. which can only
result in robbing people from the daily possibility of recalling their
representatives if they do not follow their mandate.
Try this : the people govern themselves through bottom-up democracy, that is
through workers' councils/revolutionary unions (the same thing).
The people truely organize local production and co-operate with other councils
to organize industry on a regional scale.
As union membership decreases and electioneering triumphs, I can only look
with dismay at the state of the left in France.
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