[Peace-discuss] Jean Bricmont on Yellow Vests

[Brussel, Morton K]

Interesting interview. Bricmont presents a cool and rational response to the questions posed in this interview, but he seems to lack passion and vital engagement, a cool dispassionate observer. An example is his response to what is occurring in S. America. He says that the right is winning there due to the weakness of the leftist governments, not giving “credit” to U.S. policies to weaken those governments, as in the past, including invasions, subversion, and economic strangulation.

But he thinks clearly and with broad informed opinions.

Thanks for sending the link.


On Feb 24, 2019, at 10:58 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:


Does the movement of Yellow Vests not have the merit of showing us the panic of the oligarchy which directs France and the world?

(Laughs). I do not really like the term “oligarchy”, so I will say the ruling class. It is not just the capitalists, there is the whole petty bourgeoisie, there is the media, and so on. And I will not call it the oligarchy. We can see that in all these milieux there is a kind of panic. In France, artists, intellectuals, are very reticent. There is a slight mobilization in favor of the Yellow Vests, but they do not really know what to do. Since the movement is intensely patriotic – they sing the “Marseillaise”, wave the French flag, etc. It is an attitude that deeply disturbs the left.  The people show that they are attached to their country – as the Algerians are attached to Algeria, the French are attached to France -, which does not imply any hostility towards foreigners, but it implies a certain idea of national community and this is something that the left has hated for decades. It is the great problem of the left that it is cut off from the majority of people because it rejects this idea of a national community and puts forward its membership in Europe, globalization, etc. From this point of view, the left is completely cut off from the people.

https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/a-global-challenge/


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