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Capital seeks to destroy all barriers in order to expand Macron Wanted to Destroy a Utopia That Has Been Working for Ten Years I was in La Rolandière when it was announced that the airport construction project was being called off. Everyone jostled to see the footage of this historic decision on a tiny computer screen. We did a lap around the ZAD to thank the farmers who took part in the struggle, and then organised a big party. But after that, the state sought to divide the  zadistes . Of course, there were internal disagreements on the future course of action. Some favoured reaching a compromise with the state while others adopted a radical position, a pure anarchism, even at the risk of impotence. Rather than a firm majority decision or everyone just going off to do as they pleased, they sought a middle position. The discussions were sometimes difficult and they took time. Again, this was the idea of "composition." But the state did not want such an experience to de...
Once it lost the PCF as the mediating force to represent its grievances, the French working class fulfilled Herbert Marcuse’s  1972 warning  that “The  immediate ex pression of the opinion and will of the workers, farmers, neighbors—in brief, the people—is not, per se, progressive and a force of social change: it may be the opposite.”  When The Communist Party stopped a French revolution