Misplaced Pages

Far-left politics in France

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by JASpencer (talk | contribs) at 12:48, 24 December 2024 (Other translation). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Revision as of 12:48, 24 December 2024 by JASpencer (talk | contribs) (Other translation)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Poster by the NPA in Besançon supporting the Tunisian Revolution (2010–2011).
The CNT has represented anarcho-syndicalist and revolutionary syndicalist movements since 1946.
The ZAD de Notre-Dame-des-Landes (2012).

The far-left in France includes organizations and political movements in France considered to be at the furthest left end of the political spectrum. · Historically, the far-left comprises the revolutionary left, in opposition to the reformist left represented by the PCF and the SFIO. Revolutionaries advocate for the abolition of capitalism and the establishment of an egalitarian society. Today, the far-left in France is primarily composed of communists (including Trotskyists, council communists, and Maoists), anarchists (including libertarian communists, anarcho-syndicalists, communalists, and autonomists). Some far-left political currents reject this designation, as the term originally referred to the seating arrangement of political parties in parliamentary assemblies, which some revolutionary movements reject as part of their opposition to parliamentary politics.

History

Origins

The origins of the far-left in France can be traced back to the French Revolution, particularly to Gracchus Babeuf, a French revolutionary who envisioned a classless society and founded the "Conspiracy of the Equals" in 1796. This was an attempt to overthrow the Directory to establish "perfect equality." The ideas of this conspiracy are outlined in a text co-authored by Sylvain Maréchal and Babeuf titled the Manifesto of the Equals.

Notes and references

  1. According to Serge Cosseron (Dictionnaire de l'extrême gauche, p. 20), the term refers to "all movements situated to the left of the Communist Party."
  2. Olivier Piot, L'Extrême gauche, p. 9: "The term 'far left' refers to all political groups and organizations to the left of two main currents of the French left, social democracy (PS, Greens, PRG) and the Communist Party. Unlike these parties and certain trends within the 'radical left' (e.g., alter-globalism, José Bové), which advocate reformist management of capitalism, far-left organizations call for the overthrow of capitalism through revolution."
  3. Roland Biard, Dictionnaire de l'extrême-gauche de 1945 à nos jours, Belfond, 1978.
  4. Christine Pina, L’extrême gauche en Europe, Paris, Les études de la Documentation française, 2005.

See also

This article is part of a series on
Politics of France
Constitutions
Executive
Legislature
Judiciary
Administrative divisions
Elections
Foreign relations
Related topics
flag France portal
Part of a series on
Communism
Concepts
Economics
Variants
History
Organisations
People
By region
Symbols
Criticism
Related topics
Communism portal
icon Socialism portal
Categories:
Far-left politics in France Add topic