New Caledonia: When the Left becomes identity

 New Caledonia: When the Left becomes identity

When it comes to France, part of the left, fundamentally hostile to the idea that people are composed around a common cultural dictator, rushes into the ethnocultural concept of the country with respect to New Caledonia. Should we consider this a contradiction?

We should not take Renaud Camus too seriously. Often in an awkward mood, far-right intellectuals deal with irony, this Wednesday, 5/15, when he wrote, in response to an intervention by deputy Danièle Obono of disobedience: "So, "mass sovereignty" is not the number of votes, but the race. In my arms, Obono deputy! ». But the provocation of those who popularized the racist concept of "great alternation", however, does not matter. It shows well the ambivalence of certain leftists, who, as far as the French capital is concerned, actively reject the notion of a country that borrows from culture, or even ethnicity... But as for New Caledonia, we eagerly accept this same definition.

But since the end of the 19th century, this thing seemed to be roughly understood on a theoretical level.An increasingly growing part of the left rejected the idea of the state itself, which was accused of hindering the world revolution, but those who remained loyal to it, following in the footsteps of Ernest Renan (1823-1892), defined the state as a "daily referendum" on the basis of "the desire to live together", "the desire to live together", "the desire to live together", "the desire to live together", "the desire to live together", "the desire to live together", "the desire to live together", "the desire to live together", "the desire to live together", "the desire to live together", "the desire to live together", "the desire to live together", "the desire to live together", "the desire to live together", "the desire to live together", "the desire to live together", "the desire to live together", "the desire to live together", "the desire to live together", "the desire to live together", "the desire to live together", "the desire to live together", "the desire to live together", "the desire to "The concept". This approach rejects the German view (developed by Herder and Fichte), which is based on the construction of the state on cultural factors (language, religion, and even ethnicity), and is based on its own.