A long thread on the French Socialists' 1981 program, which has some amazingly based parts

First, they insisted we have to overcome the "crisis in science" (which is not a post-2015 problem) by repoliticizing it... 1/

Socialists complain that the right bows before economists' supposed expertise, while the USSR has degenerated into a "byzantine theocracy, the third Rome indeed" 2/

Socialists can't be silent about the epistemic crisis w/out loosing credibility as a party capable of governing--they need to be able to claim that they understand society and can bring it to socialism 3/

Socialists have to crush both technocratic scientism & the obscurantists who see knowledge as a mask of power...the only way to restore democratic debate & popular sovereignty over science is by educating citizens to make them capable of such participation 4/

Socialists also had a section dedicated to a critique of capitalism as a deracinating, homogenizing force that obliterates historical identities 5/

The right wants to reduce our lived reality to statistics, to create a people w/ out a heritage--the left, to give people a future, must first give them a sense of their shared past 6/

"Memory is revolutionary...in a society in which the celebration of the everyday & the reign of the immediate have sapped the common horizon of political understanding & made citizens unfamiliar w/ long-term perspectives..." 7/

The right wants to convince us that France's decline is irreversible, that is is a hostage to global markets, w/ no need for patriotism or the revolutionary past 8/

France w/out a "universal mission" is mutilated; a citizen w/out a "feeling to collective identity" is too 9/

Finally to make an even 10, Scandi-style social democracy is inadequate & collapsing in the face of globalization... & all forms of censorship must be abolished 10/10