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The People's Era: How France Unbowed Reimagines Leftist Politics - Varn Vlog
(varnvlog.buzzsprout.com)
Interesting lower level stuff about lfi, fascinatnig that they have an app to do local stuff and how they came up with it 
i wonder what anarchists think about that part of the lower rungs of lfi
(missed varn vlog for a time, this is a month ago)
tbh, that manufacturing workers part always bothers me (with varn specifically, other leftists overestimate it share), logistics workers were very frequently forefronts of what people call general strikes, especially in russia (and usa) (ports for germany during 1918-19), why just dismiss manufacturing as only 10-15% and not add logistics into it as intrinsic part of make stuff -> consuming stuff, c-m-c. (one of course, should subtract roughly 2-5% workers involved in military procurement, which in case of usa might make you joker laugh)
(also i haven't heard particular care about "wot if bernard arnault just hires 10k french legion goons and guns your assembly down", which while paranoid, doesn't seem that paranoid on the scale of their proposals)
but yeah, the group structure seems like very resilient way to maintain cadre combined with minimal program which dismisses people over disagreements, and just avoiding labels with such a program i find fine + local groups gives people things to do
Industrial workers is my wording. Wallace's wording is "the proletariat, as opposed to the peasants, the artisans, the petit bourgeoisie" and possibly the lumpenproletariat. He then talks about "the urban[ized] urbanites" as the people who live where the action is, and implies that this is everywhere because every place (in the métropole at least) has qualities of a city.
This brings up at least two necessary modifications to the classical Marxist theory, one about the revolutionary program dissolving the distinctions between town and country (they go into a tangent about Bordiga because Varn seems to nitpick that point), and one about the revolutionary agency of the lumpenproletariat, which has doubtlessly played a role in revolutionary French politics since 1789.
With the city/countryside distinction there is obviously the capitalist synthesis of the exurbs, which socialists need a counter to (I've got one up my sleeve, ask me about it). WRT logistics, that is absolutely a part of their understanding, even a central one, note the occupations of the roundabouts by the Gilets Jaunes. The GJ is the foremost of many insurgent moments in the West that LFI and its theory are calibrated around, and I think these are much more useful than 1917 Petrograd or 1933 Wuhan.
This is equally a problem for all revolutionary approaches. Moreover, this question is easily turned around: what if Jeff Bezos drone strikes your general secretary and other core leadership in their homes? Decapitation attacks will cripple a traditional vanguard party; that's why Israel focuses on them so much, and why rebel groups have a necessity to make themselves decapitation-proof (to "be like water", one might say). At any rate, it is much more of an outrage to gun down an assembly than it is to assassinate a few rebels. And in fact, the strategy of osmosis (mentioned several times in the interview) is something that does address this.
oh i don't mind too much their form of talking-head leadership/diffuse cell network, you still need people to talk as they mention themselves.
vanguard party typical answer is defection, but i don't think in the eras before remote assassinations and military disparity was so total, like people with guns vs people with guns+artillery is very different from people with guns vs people with starlink guided heavy-drones. and that's ignoring that wealth disparity is also very lopsided, where for 0.1% of your wealth you can terrorize small defenseless city without casualties. i'm not saying ml have better answer, they don't, but i wonder if they thought about it themselves.
i also wonder what french service jobs are like tbh, do they have large consulting/lawyers/finance bros slice of working people (it's like 15% in usa or some crazy shit)
Defection as in fleeing the country and disconnecting your leadership from the on-the-ground reality? TBH I would be fully on board with a vanguard party as long as they recognized "leadership" as a bourgeois concept and split it into its component skills/proficiencies/focuses/functions; this would make the party a lot more flexible and resilient, lessen power struggles, and lower the potential benefit of blackmailing or otherwise compromising key individuals.
I can answer the question about the "services" sector in Western Europe. Throughout the imperial core, especially original EU countries, you see a very similar trend. I don't know exactly how big the FIRE sectors are but it's not a night-and-day difference compared to the USA.
defection from military ranks.
but there is slight wrinkle in services talked as a whole: nursing and elderly care is services, which is typically what explains their gargantuan expansion everywhere (coupled with multi generational family home disintegration/women integration into workforce). the managers and fire+tech sectors don't seem that big from outside in europe, they are still industry heavy.
but maybe my question is mainly this, who is like average central parisian urbanite? struggling nurse or finance bro?
In Paris the central arrondissements are generally where the wealthy live and also where most of the desirable workplaces are, and the peripheral ones are more economically deprived and are also where immigrants are typically relegated to. It's been a while since I went to France though, and a lot of my knowledge is secondhand.