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Dans la tête de Marine Le Pen (COEDITION SOLIN)
À la veille de l'élection présidentielle, ce livre mettra en lumière les lignes de forces de l’idéologie du Front national d’aujourd’hui, afin de répondre à la question que tout le monde se pose : le FN a-t-il vraiment changé ?
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188 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 11, 2017
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About the author
Michel Eltchaninoff
17 books12 followersMichel Eltchaninoff, né le 19 mai 1969 à Paris, est un philosophe, journaliste et essayiste français.
Après deux séjours professionnels en Russie (à l’ambassade de France à Moscou) et plusieurs années d'enseignement, à l'université (université de Dijon, université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) et dans le secondaire (Vitry-sur-Seine), il est rédacteur en chef au mensuel Philosophie Magazine.
Après deux séjours professionnels en Russie (à l’ambassade de France à Moscou) et plusieurs années d'enseignement, à l'université (université de Dijon, université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) et dans le secondaire (Vitry-sur-Seine), il est rédacteur en chef au mensuel Philosophie Magazine.
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February 27, 2017
Marie Le Pen retains the 4 pillars of Front National: land, people, life and myth. But FN is not the party formed by father Jean Le Penn years ago.
Marine has morphed FN into a movement that is adapted to the 21st C.
Strategie FN:
-- avoid all direct mention of xenophobia.
-- Le Pen always speaks in code.
-- Le Pen is understandable [gets her message out]
-- But Le Pen is not attackable!
Watch the next French presidential debate..20 March.
Try to listen and "find her coded message"!
Conclusion: M. Eltchaninoff does an excellent job explaining in brief
'la politique de la France' with the emphasis on the rise of 'la droite' (extreme) 18th- 21th C
Will Marine Le Pen be the next leader of France?
'..la voix de la France résonne dans le monde quand ell ne suit pas docilement les Étas-Unis."
Qui sait?
Marine has morphed FN into a movement that is adapted to the 21st C.
Strategie FN:
-- avoid all direct mention of xenophobia.
-- Le Pen always speaks in code.
-- Le Pen is understandable [gets her message out]
-- But Le Pen is not attackable!
Watch the next French presidential debate..20 March.
Try to listen and "find her coded message"!
Conclusion: M. Eltchaninoff does an excellent job explaining in brief
'la politique de la France' with the emphasis on the rise of 'la droite' (extreme) 18th- 21th C
Will Marine Le Pen be the next leader of France?
'..la voix de la France résonne dans le monde quand ell ne suit pas docilement les Étas-Unis."
Qui sait?
August 3, 2022
Earlier this year, Marine Le Pen came within a few percentage points of winning the French Presidency. It is important for Westerners to understand who she is and why she is popular.
Michel Eltchaninoff's book on Vladimir Putin was a fascinating dive into the philosophy of Putinism. With this book, he attempts to understand the ideology of Marine Le Pen, arguably the most important and influential populist politician in Western Europe.
Eltchaninoff is a leftist, but he tries to be at least somewhat objective in his description of her ideology. He backs up nearly everything he says with direct quotes from Marine Le Pen's speeches. It is very useful because he shows that Marine Le Pen is not a conservative in the American or British sense of the term. She is more akin to a nationalist republican of the French Third Republic. She is really a mixture of nationalism and socialism that became popular among many rightists in the 1920s and 30s. She is also very obsessed with rejecting the right and left labels, preferring a third way between both.
Mind you, her critiques of globalism, corruption, and the destruction of traditional French culture are often very accurate. She is popular because a large number of Frenchmen (and non-Frenchmen like me) are horrified and saddened by the destruction of France thanks to the policies of the French government or the EU, whether it be excessive immigration, the elimination of French farmers, or the crushing of the petits commerçants all over France.
However, some conservative Americans think of her as a conservative and an ally. Once in North Carolina I was attending a Traditional Latin Mass at a Catholic Church and I saw a Marine Le Pen bumper sticker on a car in the parking lot. Eltchaninoff shows that she is most definitely not a conservative nor a friend of the United States. She is radically, even irrationally anti-American and very pro-Putin. She is also a radical feminist and, although Eltchaninoff doesn't mention it, very pro-abortion and LGBT. Conservatives in the anglosphere should read this book before fawning over Marine Le Pen.
Michel Eltchaninoff's book on Vladimir Putin was a fascinating dive into the philosophy of Putinism. With this book, he attempts to understand the ideology of Marine Le Pen, arguably the most important and influential populist politician in Western Europe.
Eltchaninoff is a leftist, but he tries to be at least somewhat objective in his description of her ideology. He backs up nearly everything he says with direct quotes from Marine Le Pen's speeches. It is very useful because he shows that Marine Le Pen is not a conservative in the American or British sense of the term. She is more akin to a nationalist republican of the French Third Republic. She is really a mixture of nationalism and socialism that became popular among many rightists in the 1920s and 30s. She is also very obsessed with rejecting the right and left labels, preferring a third way between both.
Mind you, her critiques of globalism, corruption, and the destruction of traditional French culture are often very accurate. She is popular because a large number of Frenchmen (and non-Frenchmen like me) are horrified and saddened by the destruction of France thanks to the policies of the French government or the EU, whether it be excessive immigration, the elimination of French farmers, or the crushing of the petits commerçants all over France.
However, some conservative Americans think of her as a conservative and an ally. Once in North Carolina I was attending a Traditional Latin Mass at a Catholic Church and I saw a Marine Le Pen bumper sticker on a car in the parking lot. Eltchaninoff shows that she is most definitely not a conservative nor a friend of the United States. She is radically, even irrationally anti-American and very pro-Putin. She is also a radical feminist and, although Eltchaninoff doesn't mention it, very pro-abortion and LGBT. Conservatives in the anglosphere should read this book before fawning over Marine Le Pen.
May 7, 2023
Took and LONG time to read. First few chapters were good and easy to read but then became overly wordy and complex. Not very accessible for those who are not experienced intellectuals/ academics. Interesting read though.
May 9, 2018
A good, comprehensive book that works to debunk the idea that Marine Le Pen has truly detoxified her party. A philosophical look at how she references racist and anti-Semitic writers and other figures in her speeches, this book proves that, contrary to what she might think, the Front National is still as exclusionary, xenophobic, aggressively nationalistic and dangerous in its creation of an ideology of doom as it ever was.
The book would have benefitted from a few more chapters diverting away from the pure philosophical analysis at times, as it became a little heavy. The interview with Jean-Marie Le Pen at the beginning and the epilogue analysing Marine’s 2017 presidential election performance are a good example, but are both too spread out from each other and leave a taste for more.
A great book for those looking for an insight into how intelligently Marine Le Pen balances attracting new voters whilst trying to retain the hardliners she doesn’t wish to lose.
The book would have benefitted from a few more chapters diverting away from the pure philosophical analysis at times, as it became a little heavy. The interview with Jean-Marie Le Pen at the beginning and the epilogue analysing Marine’s 2017 presidential election performance are a good example, but are both too spread out from each other and leave a taste for more.
A great book for those looking for an insight into how intelligently Marine Le Pen balances attracting new voters whilst trying to retain the hardliners she doesn’t wish to lose.
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