-About this book

This book analyses the French political crisis, which has entered its most acute phase in more than thirty years with the break-up of traditional left and right social blocs. Governing parties have distanced themselves from the working classes, leaving behind on the one hand, craftsmen, shop owners and small entrepreneurs disappointed by the timidity of the reforms of the neoliberal right and, on the other hand, workers and employees hostile to the neoliberal and pro-European integration orientation of the Socialist Party.

The Presidency of François Hollande was less an anomaly than the definitive failure of attempts to reconcile the social base of the left with the so-called « modernisation » of the French model. The project, based on the pursuit of neoliberal reforms, did not die with Hollande’s failure; it was taken up and radicalised by his successor, Emmanuel Macron. This project needs a social base, the ‘bourgeois bloc », designed to overcome the right/left divide by a new alliance between the middle and upper classes. But this, as we have seen recently on the streets of Paris and elsewhere, is a precarious process.

-Contents

Preface
Introduction
1 The Political Crisis: The Absence of a Dominant Social Bloc
2 The Parti Socialiste’s Identity, at the Heart of the Crisis
3 The Bourgeois Bloc: A New Hegemonic Bloc?
4 The Processes of Political Recomposition
5 France’s Model of Capitalism, at the Heart of Political Conflict
Afterword to the English Edition
Notes

Caractéristiques

Date de parution :23 Mars  2021

Publisher : Verso

Language : English

NB de pages: 192 pages

ISBN-10 : 1788733576

ISBN-13 : 978-1788733571

poids : 368 g

Dimensions : 2 x 2 x 10