uToday, Henry Kissinger asked Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai (1898-1976) whether he considered the French Revolution a success. The person’s response remained famous: “It’s too early to say. » If we were asked the question today, we should probably answer it “probably not”because the three values inherited from the French Revolution – liberty, equality, fraternity – are disappearing in Europe, the land that saw the birth of parliamentary democracy.
Moreover, the political changes observed on the European territory seem irreversible: neo-fascist parties are currently at the gates of power in almost half of the European states, if they have not already seized it. Hungary, Serbia, Slovakia and, of course, Russia are all run by quasi-autocratic governments. The situation now also affects Austria: on September 29, the country placed a party at the head of the legislative elections that even the conservative press describes as“extreme right”FPÖ (Freedom Party of Austria).
A victory by no means achieved by dangling pseudo-liberal chimeras to the electorate, but by an openly encouraging program, in a direct reference to an expression by Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945, Nazi leader)ethnic and cultural cleansing a “city” Austrian.
Phrases borrowed from the Nazis
Registration of “two sexes” in the Constitution, “remigration” radically, the establishment of a two-tiered society that reserves social benefits only for Austrians “pure stock” : using a vocabulary typical of violent takeovers, the FPÖ says it wants “assume full powers over the three pillars of government, territory and people”. As far as cultural policy is concerned, it will be appropriate to apply the same method as with our Hungarian and Slovak neighbors: a reduction in subsidies for “Awakened Cultural Events”that is, concretely, at Eurovision and at the Vienna Festival which is under my leadership. In the eyes of the FPÖ, anything that does not involve fanfare, operettas or variety is obviously considered “woke up”.
Francis Fukuyama’s delusion that liberal society will ultimately triumph – as Karl Marx also believed (1818-1883) once for the classless society – is denied even in the countries that once formed the heart of the European Union. As we currently see, equality and fraternity – that is, openness to the world, solidarity of the welfare state, as well as religious, political and sexual self-determination – are not universally shared values for the extreme right, but of “woke propaganda”. Maybe it’s Geert Wilders (the leader of the PVV, the Party for Freedom, a Dutch far-right classified party) who summed up the situation best when he congratulated the FPÖ on Sunday, September 29: “We will win!” Identity, Sovereignty and Freedom; this is what millions of Europeans aspire to. »
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