menchevikfr
2nd February 2008, 14:55
Thanks to stumble, I have discovered this site. First, forgive me in advance for my 'non politically correct english! Langage I understand quite well but language I don't write as well!
I am a french man in his fifties, with a political curse rather complicated. My first encounter with communism was May 68. I had some discussions with young comrades from the French Communist Party youth organisation ( I was fifteen years old, and I seriously planned to enter in the youth organisation after the holidays in september.
Alas, the soviets decided to end by force the "Prague spring". I am afraid I disagred totally with comrade Brejnev at this time:ohmy:
So, I have some discussions with a member of one of many french trotskyst group, named "Lutte Ouvriere" (workers' struggle). I was a candidate member, in the bolschevik tradition. Guided by an activist, I have red a lot of books related with progressists, as The Mother by Gorky, the main book from EM Remarque, the "Deutscher" life of trotsky, abd some books from Marx, Engels, Lenin. I participated also to some actions against adversaries ( rightists, stalinists .... or other trotskysts groups!
But In fine, I was dissatisfied with this group, with the manners of members , with the practice of clandestinity which appeared to me rather ridiculous. And as I was not the son of a worker but of a middle class man, I was not "politically correct" to become a full member
So I left!:confused:
A short time after, without enough reflexion IMHO, I became a member of the French Communist Party, in a moment where the concept of Eurocommunism had risen and in the perion of the Union of the Left , between Communists, Socialists, and some moderates. In fact, Eurocommunism collapsed soon after, and the Union of the Left didn't resist to the contradictions between socilaists and communists.
So I left :scared:
I was no more communist and I tried the french Socialist Party.
I left it!!!! :crying:
For years, I didn't participate to any political action. I voted nearly in each elections for the left parties that's.
I becam a partisan of the European Union. I voted even once for a moderate rightist party in european elections!
Trotskyst, then communist-brejnevo-stalinist, then socialdemocrat, then radical (in the french way , the radical party is moderate center-left, I though sometimes I a continue, I will finish fascist!:eek:
But there was 2002 and the french presidential election and the presence of a fascist in the second ballot. I voted for the candidate of the democratic right but I switched to the left very soon during the period of the referendum about the project of European constitution. I was convainced by the leftists partisans of the 'no' and I voted no
With the election of the "zozo" wich is our new president, I consider I am very close to the extrem left.
I read Trotsky once again but as the pseudo I choose I am rather moderate and I don't believe a lot to any revolution.
I am a french man in his fifties, with a political curse rather complicated. My first encounter with communism was May 68. I had some discussions with young comrades from the French Communist Party youth organisation ( I was fifteen years old, and I seriously planned to enter in the youth organisation after the holidays in september.
Alas, the soviets decided to end by force the "Prague spring". I am afraid I disagred totally with comrade Brejnev at this time:ohmy:
So, I have some discussions with a member of one of many french trotskyst group, named "Lutte Ouvriere" (workers' struggle). I was a candidate member, in the bolschevik tradition. Guided by an activist, I have red a lot of books related with progressists, as The Mother by Gorky, the main book from EM Remarque, the "Deutscher" life of trotsky, abd some books from Marx, Engels, Lenin. I participated also to some actions against adversaries ( rightists, stalinists .... or other trotskysts groups!
But In fine, I was dissatisfied with this group, with the manners of members , with the practice of clandestinity which appeared to me rather ridiculous. And as I was not the son of a worker but of a middle class man, I was not "politically correct" to become a full member
So I left!:confused:
A short time after, without enough reflexion IMHO, I became a member of the French Communist Party, in a moment where the concept of Eurocommunism had risen and in the perion of the Union of the Left , between Communists, Socialists, and some moderates. In fact, Eurocommunism collapsed soon after, and the Union of the Left didn't resist to the contradictions between socilaists and communists.
So I left :scared:
I was no more communist and I tried the french Socialist Party.
I left it!!!! :crying:
For years, I didn't participate to any political action. I voted nearly in each elections for the left parties that's.
I becam a partisan of the European Union. I voted even once for a moderate rightist party in european elections!
Trotskyst, then communist-brejnevo-stalinist, then socialdemocrat, then radical (in the french way , the radical party is moderate center-left, I though sometimes I a continue, I will finish fascist!:eek:
But there was 2002 and the french presidential election and the presence of a fascist in the second ballot. I voted for the candidate of the democratic right but I switched to the left very soon during the period of the referendum about the project of European constitution. I was convainced by the leftists partisans of the 'no' and I voted no
With the election of the "zozo" wich is our new president, I consider I am very close to the extrem left.
I read Trotsky once again but as the pseudo I choose I am rather moderate and I don't believe a lot to any revolution.