“One of the most prominent intellectuals to say he will cast a blank ballot is the left-wing historian Emmanuel Todd. He is the author of “Who Is Charlie?” a controversial book that said the mass rallies of solidarity in France after the murder of journalists at the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket in 2015 were a cover for Islamophobia.”
France’s Presidential Election Splinters the Country’s Culturati France’s Presidential Election Splinters the Country’s Culturati - The New York Times
“‘In terms of threats to liberal democracy, threat No. 1 is the National Front,’ Mr. Todd said in an interview. ‘But the forces behind Macron, the people who are pro-Euro, pro-Europe, pro-Germany, are a major threat to democracy.’
He said he had voted for Mr. Mélenchon in the first round and didn’t believe Ms. Le Pen would win on Sunday, so he would sit out the vote. ‘It’s the usual French theater,’ Mr. Todd said. ‘We’re not on the verge of falling into Nazism or fascism at all.’”
(Ibid.)
“Todd, who comes from a cosmopolitan family of writers and is distantly related to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, came to fame for predicting the fall of the Soviet Union in 1976 and more recently for suggesting the US is an empire in decline. He has long argued that family structures explain why people adhere to certain ideologies, and has pleaded for France to leave the euro.”
Emmanuel Todd: the French thinker who won’t toe the Charlie Hebdo line Emmanuel Todd: the French thinker who won't toe the Charlie Hebdo line | Charlie Hebdo | The Guardian
Emmanuel Todd thinks that France should leave the EU. He is also sympathetic to so-called Brexit.
I don’t know if his “anthropological” views are right or not.
Roger Cohen wrote:
“Emmanuel Todd, a prominent left-wing intellectual, has said he will abstain ‘with joy.’ Some leftist supporters of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who received almost 20 percent of the vote in the first round, have attempted to equate Macron the capitalist and ex-banker with Le Pen the racist xenophobe as equal examples of iniquity. That does not fly. It is a form of moral and intellectual dishonesty.”
Macron and the Defense of the Republic Opinion | Macron and the Defense of the Republic - The New York Times
Jaliscostate wrote:
“[I]t is not okay that she thinks it’s only okay for her to make money and want to keep the people in poverty with her socialist policies.”
You statements need to be verified. You should be more specific if you want to criticize others, including your teachers. Professor Warren did not give you credit, did she?
If you happen to think that the concept of universal health coverage belongs to “socialism,” almost all politicians, whether rich or poor, outside the U.S. could be called “socialists.”
Yutaka, why are you protecting someone that you so obviously don’t know anything about?
Do you think that I decided that Warren was a socialist after I found out her stance on healthcare?
“You statements need to be verified. You should be more specific, if you want to criticize others including your teachers. Professor Warren did not give you credits, did she?”
Could you tell me about your English?
You occasionally omit subjects in your sentences. Did you happen to omit “I” in the above sentence? Or am I right in thinking that you assume you are a troll?
