Cheese, Baguettes, and Victor Hugo
Franceâs right wing claims âIslamo-leftismâ is subverting their national culture. But âFrenchnessâ has always been in flux.

True socialists cannot at the same time be nationalists, militarists, and capitalist âpatriots.â They are either one or the other; they cannot be both. The self-called socialists who are nationalists first and who set the âfatherlandâ 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.


Franceâs right wing claims âIslamo-leftismâ is subverting their national culture. But âFrenchnessâ has always been in flux.
Developmentalist nationalism is a poor substitute for socialism.
Combating the nationalism of right-wingers like Giorgia Meloni shouldnât mean defending the neoliberal consensus.









