Scrutin public n°652 sur la proposition de résolution affirmant le soutien de l'Assemblée nationale à l'Ukraine et condamnant la guerre menée par la Fédération de Russie (art. 34-1 de la Constitution).
As usual, harcore leftists (LFI) and the far-right (RN)
It seems the disagreement boils down to what position is far-left and what is moderate. It’s worth remembering that there was far-left opposition (against Russian nationalism in particular) to Bolsheviks inside the party, whom they purged in early years, labeling them bourgeois, and tried hard to suppress them from reappearing. The Bolsheviks also got popular by paying lip service to a much different agenda than they implemented, becoming in practice extremely conservative and repressing worker self-government attempts. So I wouldn’t call them far-left, a term that I’d reserve for anarchists and council communists.
The traditional left doesn’t praise the leader of Hamas, China, or Venezuela
These are tankies
It seems the disagreement boils down to what position is far-left and what is moderate. It’s worth remembering that there was far-left opposition (against Russian nationalism in particular) to Bolsheviks inside the party, whom they purged in early years, labeling them bourgeois, and tried hard to suppress them from reappearing. The Bolsheviks also got popular by paying lip service to a much different agenda than they implemented, becoming in practice extremely conservative and repressing worker self-government attempts. So I wouldn’t call them far-left, a term that I’d reserve for anarchists and council communists.
Last I checked, MLs aren’t leftists. Favoring state capitalism and totalitarianism comes closer to fascism than to anything left.