Making France Great Again?

[Dill]

(04-17-2017, 07:00 AM)hollodero Wrote: So you say. I of course like many of his positions. What I don't like is his broad EU-scepticism, talking about not honorng the contracts and even leaving it. I also don't like him praising Castro and Chavez and having some totalitarian ideas. It's a bit like left-wing populism, and I'm not so sure that's the answer.

Praise of Castro and Chavez?--depends on what he is praising there.

I am more worried about the public performance--e.g., telling Merkel to "shut up" and calling Germans "Teutons," as if they just can't help dominating other people. Anything that smacks of Trumpism now, concerns me. He is right to worry about Germany but for the same reasons we all need to worry about nations (including the US) that seem to provide privileged shelter for finance capital and push for unqualified liberalization of trade and otherwise use their economic clout to reward and punish. 

I guess I am still sorting out what I think of West European leftists right now. I should be very pleased that figures like Melenchon and Lafontaine target neoliberalism. But the inconsistencies in their records sometimes smack of opportunism. I like Turrion in Spain but he doesn't have much of a record yet.

Politics is more complicated than it used to be.