EAN: 9781788733571

THE LAST NEOLIBERAL - STEFANO PALOMBARINI BRUNO...

This book analyses the French political crisis  which has entered its most acute phase in more
than thirty years with the break-up of traditional left and right social blocs. Governing
parties have distanced themselves from the working classes  leaving behind on the one hand 
craftsmen  shop owners and small entrepreneurs disappointed by the timidity of the reforms of
the neoliberal right and  on the other hand  workers and employees hostile to the neoliberal
and pro-European integration orientation of the Socialist Party. The Presidency of Francois
Hollande was less an anomaly than the definitive failure of attempts to reconcile the social
base of the left with the so-called 'modernisation' of the French model. The project  based on
the pursuit of neoliberal reforms  did not die with Hollande's failure  it was taken up and
radicalised by his successor  Emmanuel Macron. This project needs a social base  the 'bourgeois
bloc'  designed to overcome the right left divide by a new alliance between the middle and
upper classes. But this  as we have seen recently on the streets of Paris and elsewhere  is a
precarious process.

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