Some of the responses on here about communism and Marxism are miles away from the debate taking place in France, where we're examining whether we can move on to a system that's more about compromise than 'adversarial'.
Having had conversations with friends in France in my heavily RN supporting area of farmers, vignerons and almost exclusively white French or other white european people, the conversation is miles away from racism and whatever else people think a 'far right' or 'fascist' party is about. Yes immigration and particularly the rise of Islamism and terror attacks are ongoing concerns, but in general it's about many other things too. The RN of 2024 isn't the Front National of old, any more than Reform is the BNP, but that doesn't stop people from equating the two, over and over, on a loop. Neither does it stop some people assuming that the RN, once in power, would morph into the Third Reich as sure as night follows day. But we are to 'calm down' about the potential for anti-semitism, Marxism, communism and open borders now this dodgy left alliance has the majority? Even though it's stuffed to the gunnels with Marxists, communists, anti-semites and people who call for open borders? Okay then.
If the result had been different and this French coalition had a RN / right wing alliance majority now pulling the strings, would you be equally relaxed about moving to a system that's 'more about compromise than 'adversarial'?
I somehow doubt it.