For a New Left-Right Cleavage

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Toward Ecological Socialism 1
4. Time for Social Justice 49
5. Combatting Discrimination, Measuring Racism 54
6. Rights for Poor Countries 58
7. From Basic Income to Inheritance for All 62
8. The G7 Legalizes the Right to Defraud 66
9. Responding to the Challenge of China with Democratic Socialism 70
10. Emerging from September 11 75
11. “Pandora Papers”: Maybe It Is Time to Take Action? 79
12. Can the French Presidential Election Be Saved? 83
13. The New Global Inequalities 87
14. Rightward Shift, Macron’s Fault 91
15. Sanction the Oligarchs, Not the People 95
16. Confronting War, Rethinking Sanctions 99
17. The Difficult Return of the Left-Right Divide 103
18. The Return of the Popular Front 107
19. Moving Away from Three-Tier Democracy 111
20. For an Autonomous and Alterglobalist Europe 115
21. A Queen with No Lord? 119
22. Rethinking Federalism 123
23. Redistributing Wealth to Save the Planet 127
24. Rethinking Protectionism 130
25. President of the Rich, Season 2 134
26. Emerging from the Pension Crisis through Justice and Universality 138
27. Macron, the Social and Economic Mess 142
28. Can We Trust Constitutional Judges? 146
29. What If Economists Were about to Change? 150
30. For a European Parliamentary Union (EPU) 154
31. France and Its Territorial Divides 158
32. Who Has the Most Popular Vote or the Most Bourgeois Vote? 162
33. Israel-Palestine: Breaking the Deadlock 167
34. Taking the BRICS Seriously 171
35. Escaping Anti-Poor Ideology, Protecting Public Service 175
36. Rethinking Europe after Delors 179
37. Peasants, the Most Unequal of Professions 183
38. When the German Left Was Expropriating Princes 187
39. Should Ukraine Join the EU? 191
40. For a Binational Israeli-Palestinian State 195
41. For a Geopolitical Europe, neither Naive nor Militaristic 199
42. Rebuilding the Left 203
43. Europe Must Invest: Draghi Is Right 207
44. How to Tax Billionaires 211
45. Unite France and Germany to Save Europe 215
46. For a New Left-Right Cleavage 219
47. Democracy vs. Oligarchy, the Fight of the Century 223
48. Index 227