Communist official pushes dismantling of French identity and tradition
Communism may have collapsed in Eastern Europe as a state system, but as a cultural force its acolytes continue to flourish all across the Western world. The principles of Cultural Marxism are pervasive, from economic globalism and open borders immigration to anti-family policies and manufactured youth “culture.”
In Europe openly Marxist political parties have long had a surprising degree of support, but since the collapse of the Soviet Empire have abandoned appeals to blue collar whites in favor of politically correct programs aimed at attracting various identifiable groups, especially Third World immigrants as well as “gay rights” activists, radical feminists, environmentalists and the like. Their strategic change has largely been a failure. The heirs of Chernobyl have, in some places, constructed electoral alliances with self-proclaimed Greens, while in France, Italy, Belgium and elsewhere the Marxists and hard core Islamists have forged close links. Unsurprisingly, prowhite parties have replaced Marxists as the voice of the white working class, putting the far left out in the cold where it belongs. In the 2008 elections in Italy the Communists lost all their parliamentary seats for the first time since 1945.
Despite their ideological disorientation, the far left remains ensconced in places like universities and government bureaucracies where they relentlessly pursue their agendas. In the city of Massat, in southern France, they even boast a mayor, Léon-Pierre Galy-Gasparrou. Under the 1905 French constitution, the state principle of “laïcité,” (secularism) gives the state a say in the fate of Church property. In Massat, Galy-Gasparrou is seeking to seize one of the town’s historic churches and make it into a public exhibition space. The bishop opposed the plan so the Communist functionary responded by offering the church, which dates to the 1600s, for sale on eBay, complete with its stained glass windows and statues.The Christian identity of France is closely linked to its racial future, with practicing Catholics, whose faith is associated with national consciousness, to be outnumbered by Muslims within less than a generation if current demographic trends continue.
The Communist attack on the Massat church is part of a wider leftist assault on European religious expression. While loudly claiming to support laïcité, the legal front group “Movement Against Racism” (http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=6428. Bardot, an animal rights activist, was sued by MRAP and other leftist groups because her letter protested the lack of enforcement of the law in kosher and halal slaughter practices. Ten per cent of the fine went directly to MRAP.
Not only does the Communist front group MRAP not have an issue with non-Christian public religious expression, the 2008 Bardot suit, her fifth of this kind, was the result of Bardot’s protest against the public celebration of Eid al-Kebir, which sees goats openly slaughtered in the streets and their blood running through the gutters.
Seizure of churches is reminiscent of the behavior of Léon-Pierre Galy-Gasparrou’s Soviet ideological forebears, who confiscated or destroyed thousands of places of worship. Yet this Communist shamelessly played the “fascist” card to justify peddling a centuries-old church on the internet, comparing opposition to his plan to wartime Vichy: “I am aware that beyond the problem of local politics, this concerns the application of laïcité… In this matter, there is a diktat of a particular point of view that is seeking to get the upper hand over other visions… this is a curious reminder of the de facto government of Vichy.”