Cheese, Baguettes, and Victor Hugo
France’s right wing claims “Islamo-leftism” is subverting their national culture. But “Frenchness” has always been in flux.

True socialists cannot at the same time be nationalists, militarists, and capitalist ‘patriots.’ They are either one or the other; they cannot be both. The self-called socialists who are nationalists first and who set the ‘fatherland’ of their masters above the whole earth and above all the workers of the world are not socialists at all but either mild and harmless capitalist reformers and stool pigeons or traitors to the cause.


France’s right wing claims “Islamo-leftism” is subverting their national culture. But “Frenchness” has always been in flux.
Developmentalist nationalism is a poor substitute for socialism.
Combating the nationalism of right-wingers like Giorgia Meloni shouldn’t mean defending the neoliberal consensus.









