{"id":253074,"date":"2024-07-08T17:30:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T16:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=253074"},"modified":"2024-07-08T16:27:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T15:27:03","slug":"anything-socialist-about-france","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/anything-socialist-about-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Anything socialist about France?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people will be relieved that the \u2018far-right\u2019 National Rally party did less well than expected in the French elections. And many will be pleased that instead some form of \u2018left-wing\u2019 government may be set up. But will it make any difference? Such a government will still be forced to try to \u2018make capitalism work\u2019 and will not have anywhere on its agenda the moneyless, wageless, classless alternative to capitalism that socialism represents.<\/p>\n<p>In fact no government can simultaneously try to mend capitalism and end capitalism. Administering not ending capitalism is what any new French left-wing government will be aiming to do, which of course will not take that country anywhere different from where it is right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-253074","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/253074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}