February 18, 2011 By Philippe
Corcuff (sociologist), Sandra Demarcq (National Policy Board member of the NPA) and Willy Pelletier (sociologist).
http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/philippe-corcuff/180211/non-le-npa-nest-pas-mort
The "microcosm" rustles a crazy rumor: New Anti-Capitalist Party ... died when he met only his first conference (11-13 February 2011 in Montreuil). Some whisper: "Finally! . Young people in a hurry, dazzled by the cameras, confuse, in their enthusiasm for the nine Left Front, political openness and promises of jobs.
While the NPA has not quite met the ambitions of its founding congress in February 2009. Many members left, but 6000 are still there (much more than the Left Party). The vast majority of starters nor has thereby demonstrated its dissatisfaction with an electoral strategy. More prosaically, its place in a political organization is not so simple. Which questions the ways taken by either "party", the constraints of activism, for what he may be useful to feed the dignity of the oppressed and improve their condition. The NPA is a rather contradictory, with weaknesses and strengths. Multiple debates through it, the destabilizing, enrich, the image of our ordinary lives. In short, it is a lively place, alive!
must be subservient to the cult of the immediate end to diagnose the irreversible a party that has only two years old. On the political-media market, the products seem to become obsolete as quickly as they arise. Cons this absorption in the immediacy, the late Daniel Bensaid called to find a "stitch between past and future" (happily in a radical melancholy Textuel, 2010), drawing on the critical memory as in the openings of the unpublished 'to come. Not to escape the present, in the dream or nostalgia, but to confront it, "the present, and he alone controls the beam of 'maybe'," he added.
From this point of view, the historical novel not to be confused with fashion, as we show again the revolutionary process in Tunisia and Egypt. Then we proceed more cautiously that the NPA is yet unborn. Because the NPA is not a party "turnkey": this is an ongoing process. An original adventure was launched: the emergence of a paradoxical Libertarian Party, which combines and voltage requirements of the organization and those of non-political professionalism.
Such an initiative questions the evidence of official policy: a policy capitalist and non-professional is it possible? For that dream to be a minister, member or general counsel, certainly not! Political career and capitalism are the conditions for their activity, and necessary as invisible as the air they breathe. Who believes that politics is above all a matter of civic engagement and public activity, yes! After the disappointments of the twentieth century in terms of logic of monopoly powers, soft forms of political representation in professionalized bureaucratic barbarism, how to consider another policy that does not leaned over to another policy?
Because even our representative democracies, governed by competition between political professionals, are undemocratic. TCE was ratified Versailles and the pension law passed against the mobilization of millions of citizens. The left of the future can not reproduce these traditional political forms. We must invent a radically different way of practicing politics in the school of social movements.
this in mind that the NPA, with errors, guesswork and uncertainty, has started clearing a path. Olivier Besancenot has exemplified the possibility of a timid left deserted street that does not mean the field of elections. But by making the popular self-organization of the rock, not the passive delegation to various providential men abusing the media and they wear just as quickly. For that "politics differently" is not just a marketing slogan more for aspiring political career in search of "niches".
Doing politics by refusing codes narrow set of policy: there are few places where such an experiment was attempted. Therefore, Despite the flood of chatter funeral, the NPA has not said its last word.
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