The left without borders oscillates between two contradictory discourses. One day, immigration is a mirage. The next day, she celebrated the “new France”.
The catechism of the French left is based on a single dogma: immigration is in principle, always, everywhere and in all proportion a providence. To violate this incontestable truth is to expose oneself to the anathemas of the leagues of virtue, to the insults of the sneering Radio Nova, to moral disqualification by the progressive press. In politics, Jean-Pierre Chevènement, Manuel Valls, Arnaud Montebourg, François Ruffin, because they denounced the harmful effects of migratory disruption, were found guilty of intelligence with the enemy, that is to say reality.
In the intellectual sphere, the list of proscribed people continues to grow. Since 2002, Jacques Julliard, Marcel Gauchet, Régis Debray have been called to order, among others, because they have integrated into their thinking notions as old as politics: the border, culture, identity. Each time, the same process: the thinker is expelled from the left and stripped of his status as an intellectual…
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