The candidate of the Front de gauche in the French presidential election (22 April and 6 May), Jean-Luc Mélenchon is interviewed by the editors of the weekly magazine l'Humanité Dimanche. The candidate of the Front de gauche is now above 10% [1] in the opinion polls. The credibility of this campaign was again reinforced by the immense popular success of the march to the Place de la Bastille on 18 March. For l'Humanité Dimanche, Jean-Luc Mélenchon explains the meaning of the citizens' (...) - Politics (http://www.humaniteinenglish.com/spip.php?rubrique7) / France (http://www.humaniteinenglish.com/spip.php?mot25), Presidential elections (http://www.humaniteinenglish.com/spip.php?mot249)

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Who are these people?

Who are these people?

The Left Front sounds a little like "The 99% Spring" folks in the other thread. They have this idea that they can just rework capitalism and make it do whatever it is they want. Then, of course, in five years time they are wondering how it all went south...

The Left Front sounds a little like "The 99% Spring" folks in the other thread. They have this idea that they can just rework capitalism and make it do whatever it is they want. Then, of course, in five years time they are wondering how it all went south...

Well, in their favor their proposals at least have some specificity, indeed some are lifted from our program. How they expect to enact their relatively radical program upon election is a puzzle. They hint at confiscation if capitalists entities are uncooperative, how coy. If they are so pissed at the Socialists for disassociating themselves from the Communists why aren't they communists?

Its the usual people-politics vs markets story. The people want real democracy, the politicians cant do their job because the bad markets and the greedy neoliberal bankers want to destroy democracy. So, when we will be elected, we will impose tax reforms against the rich people and the corporations and after that we will start praying hoping that our rich oppresors won't leave the country with their corporations for another country in the East. Then, as the capitalists will start investing where it is more profitable for them, we will ask for the capitalists to show some real French patriotism and stay in the country in exchange of a more logical behaviour of the workers because the times are difficult and see what happened to Greece, we dont want this to happen here too because that would be bad for the democracy so the capitalists they will now become the guarantors of the democracy. Untill the next elections when a new leftist leader wil again declare war against evil corporations etc.

Succinct. They could cut and past that and save the French people the bother.