#gaullism

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Gaullism

noun

the principles and policies of Charles de Gaulle, characterized by conservatism, nationalism, and advocacy of centralized government.

[dustyandboundwonders]

Vers l’armée de métier

--> “Towards an army career” (suggestions for translation are welcomed)

by Charles De Gaulle

published by Berger-Levrault publications

printed in Nancy, France, in 1944

first published in 1934 by the same publisher

[crypto-keynesian]

Republican Bonapartism

Gaullism’s obsession with an interventionist, quasi-directive, and monolithic (albeit republican/parliamentary) state apparatus as a mechanism by which to quell class struggle in the interest of supplementing social, political, and national unity with implicitly fascistic and/or traditionally imperial collaborationist-corporatist socioeconomic policy, as well as its co-option of concerted, spontaneous revolutionary action on the part of the proletariat, earns it the title of “Republican Bonapartism,” in my personal lexicon. Its appeal to the whole of the petty bourgeois, parliamentarian political spectrum of France also yields a distinctly Bonapartist tinge to the doctrine of, essentially, “strong state, strong leader, strong nation,” the only functional difference being its ardently, uncompromisingly republican character. The representative/republican innovation to the Bonapartist ideological doctrine has been proven to be ingenious in the preservation of class hierarchy and national identity within France since the conclusion of the Second World War, even among those supposedly critical of such manifestation, like the radicals and communists (most notably the Radical-Socialist and PCF); such bourgeois-democratic elaboration on an otherwise discarded authoritarian ideology legitimized its resurgence, and continues to legitimize its prevalence in national, political, and historical discourse.