Author : Bruno Amable
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788733592
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)
Book Synopsis The Last Neoliberal by : Bruno Amable
Download or read book The Last Neoliberal written by Bruno Amable and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Franois 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.