French President Emmanuel Macron posed a question to the French people: “Looking at these images, we have all asked ourselves: What was going through their minds? How can French people do this to France?” Because many of them aren’t French and never will be French. Macron should look at what the French elite have done to France. They flooded the zone with Third Worlders they can’t afford.
Now the barbarians are tearing shit up—and some French citizens are joining them. The chaos is spreading across Europe (Italy, most notably). It will come to America if Democrats emerge victorious in November. Indeed, it’s already substantially here. We saw it in the Black Lives Matter rebellion. We see it now in our streets, organized by the Red-Green Alliance and the globalists who fund them.
In anthropology and sociology, we teach our students to avoid Eurocentrism because Non-European societies have a different cultural operating system than European-based societies. Treating European experiences, history, institutions, and values as the universal standard distorts our understanding of other societies. Anthropologists, particularly since Franz Boas, have emphasized understanding cultures within their own historical and social contexts rather than judging them according to European cultural standards.
Indeed. People from other cultures don’t think like Westerners do. Africans and Middle Easterners (MENA) in particular don’t share European values. One of those values is assimilation. People from the MENA region resist integrating into Western nations that welcome them. Even when naturalized, they don’t integrate with the host country (we see this in the United States, too). Non-Westerners are the same species, to be sure, but they’re not the same people. I didn’t need proof to know that. But if the French needed proof, they got it in spades.
The underlying tension underpinning the chaos in France is the deterioration of the country. A vast welfare state burdened by mass migration is a major source of France’s decline. The French are experiencing deteriorating school conditions, rising living costs, and dissatisfaction with public services. The silent majority knows the causes of tension: globalization and the importation of millions of Muslims. Today, one in ten French residents is a Muslim. Muslims are disproportionately welfare recipients.
Importing an incompatible population was part of a grand plan. It was designed to undermine organized labor. According to Paul Dijoud, minister for immigrant workers, the French government in the 1970s, under president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, sought in Islam “a stabilizing force which would turn the faithful from deviance, delinquency or membership of unions or revolutionary parties.”
In Multiculturalism and its Discontents, Kenan Malik, who documents this, writes, “When a series of strikes hit car factories in the late 1970s, the government encouraged employers to build prayer rooms in an effort to wean immigrant workers, who formed a large proportion of the workforce, away from militant activity.”
The plan has been highly effective. In the 1950s, roughly one-third of French workers belonged to a trade union. Today, less than one in ten French workers belongs to a trade union.
The plan runs directly counter to France’s value of civic nationalism. Civic nationalism demands that all citizens integrate into a country’s core values. Keeping newcomers away from native-born workers by segregating population groups (such as prayer rooms) effectively disorganizes the national proletariat. French elites betrayed the French citizenry by destabilizing the working-class majority. This is globalization. In Europe, globalization works through regionalization, corporatism, and social democracy.
Ironically, today in France, the social democracy demanded by the left is feeding left-wing rage. They got what they voted for, and they don’t like it. Stupidly, they want more of what they don’t like. That’s on first blush. To be sure, they are stupid, but going deeper, the goal of communism and Islam is to destroy free societies. The destroyers use social democracy as a means to an end. Mass action has a goal—to destabilize the French Republic. Powerful forces are leading the rabble around by the nose.
The far-left plays an outsized role in the rebellion. Yet the MSM dissimulates the cause of the chaos. The talking heads tell us this is about protests over educational disparities. Organized blockades over such grievances aren’t appropriate, either. But this is not really about education. That’s media propaganda. Adult far-left agitators directed students to set up some 900 barricades and blockades across the country in a few days to trigger a mass action. From there, it rapidly descended into chaos. The left and the forces organizing them leveraged widespread discontent to further their revolutionary goals.
We know who is behind the rebellion. France Unbowed or Rebellious France (abbreviated LFI) and the French Communist Party are the principal organizers of the chaos. They are joined by a network of roughly 50 revolutionary groups. Only about 15 of the groups involved are student or youth groups, and they are largely communist youth and Muslim student groups. Visible symbols at marches included Young Communists banners with hammer-and-sickle imagery, “Class War” and anti-imperialist slogans, Antifa insignia, LFI flags, and Palestinian flags. The coalition burning down France is known as the Red-Green Alliance, and several articles on this platform have exposed its character and warned readers of the consequences.
“Nothing justifies it, nothing explains it, nothing excuses it,” President Macron said, pledging an “uncompromising” response to “agitators from ultra-left fringe groups, joined by numerous delinquents.” Yet, there is no mention of mass migration or Muslims in his strident tones. Why would he criticize the plan? At an October 16 European Council meeting, Macron warned against politicizing immigration and argued that individual national approaches were ineffective. He emphasized European cooperation rather than unilateral border closures. He knows that it’s European cooperation that brought about the mass migration crisis.
The problem is not rebellion per se. The problem is who is rebelling. If French patriots rise up against globalization and mass migration and demand economic nationalism, closed borders, and mass deportation, militant action is justified. Violence in defense of one’s nation is warranted—of course, as a last resort. The French government is not acting to save France; the common man may find mass action necessary (they should wake up sooner rather than later). In the current situation, it is the enemies of liberal democracy—communists and Islamists—who are perpetrating the violence. This is never justified and must be met by state and popular force.
Predictably, antisemitism is also a motivating factor. French journalist Paul Amar reports that rioters in Marseille deliberately targeted Jewish-owned businesses while leaving Muslim-owned businesses untouched. Rioters arrived with addresses of Jewish business owners. They were instructed to leave Muslim-owned businesses alone. The world witnessed the second coming of Kristallnacht. It testifies to the true character of the Red-Green Alliance. The rioters are of the same ilk as the Nazi thugs who terrorized Weimar Germany.
In the end, as I have shown on this platform, when it comes to the ordinary person’s phenomenological experience, little light shines between communism and fascism—if any light shines at all. Both movements seek the end of liberal democracy. Both bring despair.
In the final analysis, communism and fascism produce the same conditions: the subsumption of the West under a one-world government and the administered life. The antidotes are republicanism and nationalism. The French need to wake up.
