the new socialist regime and the french republic.



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The recent regime change in France amid renewed socialist fervor in that country, mostly due to the same economic and political conditions that brought Francois Mitterand to office in that country some years ago, poses a threat to political realities everywhere given the, again newfound, positivism in French politics these days.  Socialism in France has a different flavor than that fostered by the soviet communists in the old days:  Whereas the soviets relied primarily on principles close to strict Marxism, French socialism is an effort in theory to build, or re – build a utopia using the principles of liberalism that appear to its own socialists to be the best means to accomplish this end.  Remember France has a quite popular anti – conservative and anti – royalist tradition that is bounded by ordinary civilized politics and administration including frequent instances of civil disobedience, activism, and administrative rabble – rousing and ‘stirring the pot.’  What does this mean?  The first thing to remember is the French socialists, not their communist party that no longer really exists; but their socialists believed in more sterilized and scientific approaches to ousting conservatives than the sort of bank – robbing and gun – slinging many soviet communists favored even in more modern times.  This had American administrations believing for a long time that it was possible to live with a strongly socialist French president Mitterrand, though it is well – known Mitterrand so loathed the right he was willing to embrace the right in the USSR at the time more than the Americans, though this ideal fizzled with the end of the soviet system in 1991 or so.  

 

The socialists in France have already proven to be more glamorous than their conservative predecessors as subsequent to their troop reductions in the Afghanistan war they have far – flung operations in Mali in the conflicts there at this point.  Mitterrand concentrated on Tchad for a while and New Caledonia as well as places to send troops to fight.  The French socialists regimes almost rely as heavily on the military for security and self - assurance than their soviet analogs had done in the day given the emphasis in soviet times on the intrigues and unwinding plots and plans of the state organs.  The French federal constitution allows for more political and civic freedoms for its citizens than the old soviet one did, and thus the willful demonstrations of security forces and the military are less stark under French socialism than in the former soviet times.  The reasons for this are palpable and evident to anyone who has visited the French capitol where any number of ethnicities have their territories and social cliques, and where there are many conflicted interests as a result, not to mention the ordinary operations of the police bureaus and Interior Ministry personnel.  What do socialist French regimes, as that of Francois Hollande that follows the regime of Nicolas Sarkozy, invite and engender besides a varietal form of liberal regime in Western Europe?  It is difficult to speculate, though every Marxist for years has pointed to the leftist regimes in France, and their capitalist – compatible form of socialism despite the open admiration of some officials there for the soviets, as a successful form of liberalism in which the state provides a social net, education, military readiness, a well – trained police force, rule of law administration, and other principles un – characteristic of typical socialist regimes.  These principles nonetheless apply to those within the party, as the French socialists appear to depend upon widespread party support for success in elections and do not necessarily reach across party lines for votes, nor for moral nor financial support.  Informally mentioning the closely knit socialist elite in France as a candidate for the actual mantle of worldwide Marxism after the end of the USSR is a possibility, and with an internal French will to a utopic view of a liberal regime, again, instead of one that emphasizes the cult of personality and secrecy, and machinations of the organs under what was soviet Russia and its satellites.  This is no apology for either soviet regimes, nor at all for the utopic socialists in France and elsewhere (including in places like P.R.C., Southeast Asia, South America, the Middle East and Africa, … .)  It is a writing purposefully and briefly proposed to bring issue awareness to a new type of leftist politics that muddies the political / economic waters that were cleared by the end of the cold war and the abandoning of communism.  Remember one attraction of this is upon the end of the USSR, considerable numbers of communists and leftists, some of whom were very accomplished people under the old regime, were cast out and they have been waiting in the wings for their fortunes to rise again through a resurgence of any liberal regimes in Europe or anywhere.  Such individuals and their associates and families have eked out a bitter existence for years since the early 1990’s despite their respectability under the leftist values of old.  A question proposed by this writing as well is what should be done with these parties who were cast aside and who have found a resurgence in new liberal regimes in Europe and elsewhere.  How should they be treated, and should they be legitimized anew by their values as subscribed by regimes such as the current one in France and the important place of that now leftist country in the community of nations, and in the world opinion that is formed commonly starting in the villages and hamlets yearning for a better life everywhere.