The philosopher regrets that the left has renounced the social-democratic ideal in favor of a radical tendency. Maintenance.
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Has the French left definitively cast off the moorings of social democracy? In the aftermath of a first round of legislative elections which saw the progress of a union of the left – of circumstance – around Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the philosopher and feminist Élisabeth Badinter, whose word is rare, wonders about the reasons for this unexpected divorce. For this intellectual attached to the republican political tradition, it is necessary to look on the side of school failures to understand the resentment and the radical temptation of this new left.
Le Point: The left has never seemed so divided on issues of secularism and more broadly on the model of society to be defended. How do you explain this growing confusion?
Élisabeth Badi…
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