"The EU should impose sanctions on France and all countries like France that impoverish Africa and make these people leave, because Africans should be in Africa, not at the bottom of the Mediterranean."
"If people are leaving today it's because European countries, France above all, have never stopped colonising dozens of African countries."
"France is one of those countries that by printing money for 14 African states prevents their economic development and contributes to the fact that the refugees leave and then die in the sea or arrive on our coasts," he said.
"If Europe wants to be brave, it must have the courage to confront the issue of decolonisation in Africa."
- Di Maio, leader of the Italian Five Star Movement
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Rootedness is perhaps the most important and most misunderstood need of the human soul. It’s one of the most difficult to define. A human being has a root through his real, active, and natural participation in the existence of a collectivity that actively conserves certain treasures of the past and certain premonitions of the future. Natural participation, that is to say automatically brought about through place, birth, profession, surroundings. Every human being needs to have multiple roots. He needs to receive the near totality of his moral, intellectual, spiritual life through the intermediary of the milieus to which he naturally belongs.
Simone Weil, L’enracinement
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Article 42 of the Ba’ath Party Charter:
Eliminate class inequality and discrimination. Class inequality is the result of corrupt social conditions. For this reason the party fights in the ranks of the working classes oppressed by society, until this inequality and discrimination ceases, when all the citizens recover their integral human value, and it is possible to live in an equitable social situation, without privilege of one over another, except the privilege of the mind’s capacity and the hand’s skill.
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Guy Debord said that if elections could change anything, they would have been banned long ago. We can say the same about the “great debate” launched by Emmanuel Macron: if it was really likely to satisfy the Yellow Vests' demands, it simply wouldn't have taken place. When parliamentarians want to bury an issue, they create a commission. To buy time, Macron proposes – it's fashionable – to “open the floor”. The “great debate” is doctor Freud's couch: “Lie down and tell me all your miseries, afterwards you'll feel better.” To discuss rather than decide has always been the favorite method of the bourgeois class. In the worst case, the “great debate” will terminate without results. At best, the mountain will give birth to a mouse2. They will make concessions here and there (the carbon tax, the 80 km/h speed limit, etc.) but they won't touch the hard questions. That is to say the questions that imply a real change in society.
Those who are in power today are incapable of facing the Yellow Vests' demands because the lower world is mentally, culturally, and physiologically foreign to them. They imagine that they are facing demands of the classic type (“unhappy people”) to which they can respond through mere announcements and appropriate communication strategies. They don't see that they are, in reality, confronted with a necessarily existential revolt, coming from people who, after having wasted their lives trying to earn, have discovered that what they earn no longer permits them to live and so they no longer have anything to lose. At the height of the demonstrations, at the moment where a helicopter circled Élysée in case Macron needed to be extracted, they were nevertheless afraid. Physically afraid – and we haven't seen that in a long time as well. Today, they've recovered their class contempt, even when they try to be empathetic, they will never forgive those who frightened them.
- Alain de Benoist
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"I believe that the Eastern countries tend to think about their people first (or the Europeans), whereas the other European left parties prefer internationalism. I do not see it necessarily as a bad thing, but our position is just different. We are not capable of hiding the fact that the Czech worker is closer to us."
- Kateřina Konečná: Czech Communist Party MEP
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