“Jean-Luc Mélenchon lays down the law everywhere on the left,” says Michel Onfray

The anti-Mélenchon left met on Saturday in Montpellier to try to offer an alternative to the pro-Nupes line. Former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, who left the PS, did not make the trip, but spoke on video. Among the figures present, the socialist president of Occitania Carole Delga.

Critic of Nupes and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the 51-year-old socialist intends to embody an alternative. She said she was in favor of a union of the left, that “which acts, not that which is agitated”. A left to which Michel Onfray, philosopher and author of Anima: Life and Death of the Soul – From Lascaux to Transhumanismguest of Europe Matin Monday for a simple reason: “There is a difference in degree but not in nature between these two lefts”, he judged.

“Mélenchon decides and everyone falls into line”

Will this alternative to the pro-Nupes line succeed in convincing? At the same time, the deputies of La France insoumise expressed their disagreements over the weekend. Deputy François Ruffin, now presidential on the left, rubbed shoulders with the Mélenchonist staff on Friday when he made the social question a priority, to the detriment of gender issues. Criticized by some of his rebellious colleagues, such as MP Sophia Chikirou, for having set aside a law on gender change in the name of “appeasement”, François Ruffin admitted having to “progress” on this issue. “The proof that it is Mélenchon who makes the law everywhere on the left. Mélenchon decides and everyone falls into line”, estimated Michel Onfray at the microphone of Europe 1.

Back to Proudhonism?

School, secularism, immigration… According to the philosopher, the left proposed by Bernard Cazeneuve will be the same left as that of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “They have the same software. The software of a left that would be really alternative would be the Proudhonian software, saying ‘let people do where they are, in the countryside, in the provinces, give people back the initiative, stop with the bureaucracy, yes to taxes but what about distribution?’ And all these people who say that the international preference is very good, I say the international preference what is it if it is done to the detriment of the nationals? We must find the sense of the nation and the sense of the people.

A left that will “certainly not be embodied” by Carole Delga or Bernard Cazeneuve according to the author of Anima: Life and Death of the Soul – From Lascaux to Transhumanism published by Albin Michel.