It is a parallel universe, a counter-world where Jean-Luc Mélenchon is a “social democrat”. In the ultra-left media, randomly the site Monday morningheld by relatives of Julien Coupat, or the magazine The Seum, distributed in Toulouse, the same rhetorical figures circle around. Capitalism cannot be reasoned because it necessarily wants “war”, the police, corrupt defender of “the order of the world” must be abolished. Do not trust the “parliamentary left” which is about to betray for a “career”. Those who think that are invariably “more and more”. The revolution is definitely near. On the attack, friends.
One could only smile at this romanticism that Lenin described as “childish”. This would be to disregard an important phenomenon: the ultra-left is now moving the lines. By their violent actions, the black blocs put pressure on the rulers, who sometimes backed down, at Notre-Dame-des-Landes or in Paris, on the day of the “taking” of the Arc de Triomphe.
Above all, the ultra-left easily arouses indulgences in the progressive arc. No sanitary cordon: nourished by the memory of the Holland quinquennium and its supposed “liberal” drift, the discourse of militant purity is intimidating. And it spreads, from Jean-Luc Mélenchon to Sandrine Rousseau. Looking for weak signals of “right-wing” is once again becoming a passion, until the NPA, where a current split in 2021 by castigating the “turn to the right” of the management. Perhaps this is the “blackblocking” of minds.