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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)
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.