The program of the technologist party: reindustrialize at all costs

“Industrialization will, I fear, be a curse for humanity.”

— M.K. Gandhi

“This war show is given by peace; this appalling copy of the devastation is made by industry.”

— Victor Hugo, The Rhine, 1839.

“It is useless to gossip about capitalism: it is not capitalism that creates this world, it is the machine.”

— Jacques Ellul, The Technique or the Challenge of the Century, 1954.

“The bourgeoisie and the proletariat have the same industrial religion, and the same playing field: the city. For both of them, the campaign is a foreign body that we put up with as best we can, until it is eliminated brutally by the revolution, and methodically by technique.”

— Bernard Charbonneau, The garden of Babylon, 1969.

“In the past, people were the most important; in the future, the system should come first.”

— Frederick Winslow Taylor

“The strength that the bourgeoisie has to exploit and oppress workers lies in the very foundations of our social life, and cannot be destroyed by any political and legal transformation. This strength lies first and foremost in the very regime of modern production, namely large-scale industry.”

— Simone Weil, Reflections on the causes of freedom and social oppression, 1934.

“Industrial societies, whose shape owes much to the long and close collaboration between sovereigns, merchants and mechanics, have already left their mark on the world. The destruction of nature and its replacement by an anti-nature is well advanced; the erasure of cultures, languages, knowledge and skills of communities that were also along the way. The unquenchable progressive promise is an incentive to continue along the same path, with the horizon being the artificialization — and therefore the annihilation — of humanity itself.”

— Mathias Lefèvre and Jacques Luzi,” Homo industrialis, or the disastrous cult of the artificial”, magazine Ecology & Politics, 2017.

“All specialists agree that pollution remained relatively limited in nature and extent until the advent of industrial civilization. The rise of the latter is transforming the facts of the problem, and since then the extent of pollution has continued to expand and evolve along complex paths, until it saturates the contemporary world and its imaginations.”

— François Jarrige and Thomas Le Roux, Contamination of the world: a history of pollution in the industrial age, 2017.

The Technologist Party includes all political parties. From the extreme left to the extreme right, including the center and the environmentalists, the same political project: to wage a total war against nature, dignity and freedom in the name of technological and industrial progress. This uniformity of political projects is indicative of the totalitarian nature of industrial societies.

The German philosopher Hartmut Rosa gave a definition of “totalitarian power” that seems to us to correspond to what can be observed in an industrial society.

“I suggest that we can consider a power to be totalitarian when a) it exerts pressure on the wills and actions of the subjects; b) it cannot be escaped from, that is, it affects all subjects; c) it is omnipresent, that is, its influence is not limited to one or other aspect of social life, but extends to all aspects of social life; d) it is difficult or almost impossible to Criticize it and fight it^[1].”

Industrialist power is exactly that type. Armed with its technoscience and its ever more powerful machines, this system deprives us of our autonomy, takes us hostage. It thrives by destroying the biosphere, the thin layer on Earth's surface that has been home to life for over three billion years now.

In order to show the totalitarian nature of industrial society, we have collected statements from French political figures. All, without exception, defend the reindustrialization of France. Political parties only differ in how they do it — more or less state interventionism. The main criticism of the opposition on the right as well as on the left? It's not going fast enough. Thus, for the left, the right and a good part of the environmentalists, the concretization of agricultural and wild land is not fast enough, as is the dumping of toxic waste in rivers. Billions of tons of sand have been extracted from French rivers and coastlines^[2], but that's still not enough, you see. Industrial devastation is progressing too slowly.

Industrialization caused a explosion of inequalities at the national level and between countries at the international level. Technological development is destroying peasantry and crafts^[3]. Modern technology and comfort are demolishing the brain's basic cognitive functions (memory, empathy, learning), weakening children, and making us sicker by separating us from nature^[4]. In industrialized countries, 90% of human existence is spent in enclosed spaces^[5].

Given the avalanche of scientific data at our disposal on the increasing human and ecological damage caused by industrial development, calling for reindustrialization is obscurantist, senseless, and criminal.

Emmanuel Macron (neither right nor left, just technologist)

Trained at the École Nationale d'Administration (ENA), one of the many factories producing technocrats on a chain, investment banker, Emmanuel Macron spent most of his political career in the Socialist Party. A supporter of François Hollande, then a member of his government, now President of the Republic, he venerates the transhumanist billionaire Elon Musk and dreams of making “data centers”, “car factories” and “large battery factories” proliferate across the country.^[6]. Last May, Macron caused an uproar on the left by saying he wanted a “break” on environmental regulations.^[7]. This same left that promises, if it were in power, to pilot reindustrialization more effectively and quickly than Macron.

Jean-Marc Jancovici (decreasing ecologist)

Polytechnician, author of several industrialist propaganda books, was appointed in 2018 to the High Council for the Climate, composed of twelve other technocrats responsible for “providing an independent perspective on Government policy.^[8] ”, associated with the consulting firm Carbone 4 and president of Think Tank The Shift Project, Jean-Marc Jancovici has been talking for more than 10 years about the need to reindustrialize France. In an article published during the 2012 presidential campaign in the newspaper Les Echos, owned by billionaire Bernard Arnault, Jancovici was already calling on “serious candidates” to follow the “path” of decarbonization^[9]. He writes that “France lacks industries: we spend too little time manipulating material, and too much time manipulating information.” According to the Polytechnic engineer, it is necessary “to initiate a new industrial revolution based on a gradual, but massive, emancipation from fossil fuels”. A “transition that will keep us busy for 50 years”, the time it will take for major industrial firms to complete the French countryside, to make them permanently uninhabitable.

Marine Le Pen (far right)

A lawyer by training, involved since the 1980s in the party created by her father, the National Front, which became the National Rally (RN), the main far-right party in France, Marine Le Pen is a deputy and president of the National Rally group in the Assembly. Far from wanting to preserve the land, the peasantry and the beauty of France, Marine Le Pen loves motorways (like Hitler).^[10]), industry, science, and progress.

“110 kilometers per hour on the highway? You can also stop living, breathing, having cars, or going back to the horse cart. Moreover, if we listen to environmentalists, this is what we will come back to. (...) The reality is that their vision is a vision of absolutely total regression of civilization, while, obviously, the solutions lie in science, progress, that is to say, tomorrow we will find solutions to be able to improve energy efficiency.^[11].”

For Le Pen, we need “economic patriotism” and “localism”, that is to say, “reindustrialize and produce wealth in France.”^[12] ”. But since rubber mines and monocultures are not relocated, since the techno-industrial system is the product of globalization, of the international division and specialization of labor, this means that the whole discourse associating “return to national sovereignty” and “reindustrialization” is a vast scam.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon (far left)

Member of the Socialist Party in the 1970s, support of the former collaborator Mitterrand, founder of the Left Party (PG) then of La France Insoumise (LFI), senator for more than 13 years, now a deputy, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is an old coward of the French mafia politician.

Like all other far-left and far-right politicians, Mélenchon's party believes that “deindustrialization is the silent death for entire villages and cities.” This is why the “Common Future” program wants to create an “Agency for Relocation” which will be “responsible for identifying the industrial sectors essential to the sovereignty of the country and to the management of the ecological bifurcation”.^[13] ”. Making us pass off reindustrialization as an ecological transition has been the credo of technocracy, at least since the Club of Rome.^[14]. Under these conditions, it is not surprising that the France Insoumise program was the best ranked by Jean-Marc Jancovici's Shift Project.^[15].

Megalomaniac, lover of technological gadgets (holograms, etc.), Melenchon is probably one of the most techno-fanatic politicians, as shown by his transhumanist and post-human aspirations.

“What was once a biological condition has ceased to be a servitude. Tomorrow we will defeat death^[16].”

Like any self-respecting technologist, Mélenchon is a fundamentalist in the religion of Progress. In 2012, he said that “this human hope, in faith in the future, in progress, in going beyond ourselves, that is what counts.”

In the same vein, he declared that “(...) one day, we will defeat death and then what was the heart of the human condition, which was its experienced finitude, will in one way or another become a finitude that we have chosen.^[17] ”.

Transhumanists Elon Musk and Nick Bostrom clap with both hands.

Eric Zemmour (far right)

Journalist, essayist, polemicist, president of Reconquest, Éric Zemmour has been spreading his rancid ideas for quite a few years in the industrialist media. In 2021, despite having no political experience, he announced his candidacy for the 2022 presidential election. Thanks to a large media exposure, he siphoned votes from Marine Le Pen and allowed Macron to win in the first round.

Like Mélenchon, Zemmour believes in the divine power of technology and industry to solve all social and ecological problems.

“I believe in human genius, in its ability to surpass itself. I am convinced that technology and innovation will be part of the range of solutions to reduce our carbon footprint. There is no shortage of examples, I am thinking of the fuel cell, the development of carbon-free energies such as biomass and geothermal energy or the nuclear power of the future. Technology and innovation will drive all of these solutions.^[18].”

Philippe Poutou (extreme left)

A trade unionist worker (CGT), involved in various extreme left parties including Lutte Ouvrière (LO) and the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), Philippe Poutou was the candidate of the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA, which replaced the LCR in 2011) for the 2022 presidential election.

As with all their left and extreme left comrades, the NPA bases all its analysis on the old Marxist-Leninist refrain that the means of production could be separated from the relations of production (technology would be neutral, etc.). Instead of denouncing industrialism, they criticize “capitalism” and increasingly “productivism” in order to get the environmentalists back on the right path. To refine the propaganda, the prefix “eco” is still added to socialism. Political marketing is a communist specialty.

According to the NPA, it would be possible and desirable for the State to organize “democratic economic planning”, without, of course, allowing the endless discussions essential to “democracy” to conflict with the social, ecological and health “emergency” (the word “emergency” is hammered out 21 times in their program).^[19]).

At the NPA, it is also a question of “reorienting the productivist model of industrial and agri-food capitalism” by “relocating industrial and agricultural productions”. All this, of course, by stopping “the policy of artificialization of soils”.

Poutou wants to expropriate the major “capitalist multinationals, especially in the automotive and energy industries” and put in place a “socialization of the economy under the control of employees and users.^[20] ”. Lenin wrote the same lies a few months before taking power and establishing one of the worst dictatorships of the 20th century.^[21].

As a reminder, industrialism is a authoritarianism. No democracy is possible within the techno-industrial system.

Gaël Giraud (ecologist, economist and Jesuit)

Former chief economist at AFD, a neocolonial agency that sponsors the development of industrial cancer in the global South, Gaël Giraud is now a research director at CNRS. In an interview with Reporterre, he seems terrified by the consequences of a future collapse of the technological world-system. According to him, “everything must be done to avoid collapse”, for example implementing “hyperproactive public policies”. He takes the opportunity to castigate the anarchists who are rubbing their hands at the idea of experiencing the fall of the techno-industrial Empire.

“The temptation is to think of the collapse as good news. Some give in to a kind of anarchist romanticism, unconsciously jubilating at the abolition of the state at the prospect of collapse. However, I am convinced that we need a state to enforce the law and justice, to provide public and social services. The only benefit of collapsology is to encourage us to do everything we can to avoid a disaster^[22].”

For the technologist party, the rescue of nature and the survival of the human species represent the “disaster” that must be avoided at all costs.

Arnaud Montebourg (left)

Minister of the Economy, Productive Recovery and Digital Technology under François Hollande, Arnaud Montebourg believes that “the younger generations are right to be worried”. Because they “will live with the nightmare we left them.” But what is this “nightmare” according to Montebourg? Food soaked in toxic substances? An increasingly allergenic and carcinogenic atmosphere? Wild nature in ruins? No! Apparently, for him and for others, that's still not enough. That is his “nightmare.” The deficit of ugliness, toxicity, mediocrity, nothingness.

Thomas Guénolé (leftist political scientist)

Former advisor to Arnaud Montebourg and Jean-Louis Borloo, former co-director of the LFI training school, regularly invited to TV shows to belch his hatred of critics of technology, Thomas Guénolé believes that “the electric car is very virtuous.^[23] or that worrying about the harmful effects of artificial intelligence is “obscurantist”^[24] ”. Unsurprisingly, it appears the workers Luddites who revolted against industrialization to residents who did not understand anything about the beneficial power of the Machine.

Édouard Philippe (right)

A graduate of Sciences Po and ENA, socialist activist before participating in the creation of the UMP in 2002 with Alain Juppé, mayor of the filthy port and industrial city of Le Havre, former Prime Minister of the Macronist regime, Édouard Philippe regrets the disappearance of French industry at least as much as his Marxist-Leninist comrades.

“Since 1970, the year I was born, the share of industry in the economy has been halved in France, which has become one of the European countries with the weakest industry. We have experienced a form of deindustrialization. To take an example, in the European Union there is only one country where the share of industry in gross domestic product is lower than in France: it is Luxembourg, which has never been an industrial power^[25]...”

Everything must be done to ensure that manufacturers return to pollute France. Even factories that are classified as high risk.

“Few people in France say they are opposed to the industry. But when you explain that you have to install a factory classified as Seveso high threshold (major technological risk -Ndr) not far from home, there are suddenly a lot fewer supporters of the industry. Well, I can tell you that if you have a Seveso high-threshold factory to fit in, I'll take it! Because we know how to do this type of industrial project in Le Havre.”

Édouard Philippe, who is suffering from two autoimmune diseases, refuses to see the link scientifically proven between their multiplication and the increasing toxicity of the environment^[26]. Total disconnection with material reality.

And naturally, “you have to go with the ecological transition”, “you have to involve as many people as possible.”

“Let's fight for the largest number of manufacturers to come and produce at home”

Jean Lassalle (right)

Deputy and president of Résistons, Jean Lassalle has often been falsely described as the “rural candidate”. However, he advocates the same crazy project — the industrialist project — as all the other members of the political cartel.

In an interview with the magazine forbes, he shares his vision of the renewal of campaigns:

“[...] all services must be abandoned because France must first be reindustrialized. And the industry, even when it comes to the industry of the future, must meet basic needs, not just deal with niches. That is why we are imagining a Marshall Plan for the industrialization of the country. In addition, it is at the level of education and training that a lot is happening. The subject of robotization: bringing humans and digital technology together is central^[27].”

François Bayrou (right)

Minister under several right-wing governments, mayor of Pau, president of the Democratic Movement (MoDem), president of the Pau Béarne Pyrénées agglomeration community, appointed in 2020 as High Commissioner for Planning by Emmanuel Macron, indicted for embezzlement of public funds, François Bayrou proposes the same tone as the extreme left. A strategic and proactive state is needed to reindustrialize, like that of Lenin, Stalin or Mao; like that of Mussolini and Hitler; like that of Mussolini and Hitler; like the Chinese state.

“We must imagine a mobilization in which the State would play a central role, but which must be surrounded by business partners.^[28].”

Nathalie Arthaud (far left)

Teacher, spokesperson for Lutte Ouvrière, always telling the same nonsense for decades. For the extreme left, the car industry and agrochemicals are only problematic when they are privatized. All problems disappear as if by magic by nationalization.

“I think very clearly that they should be expropriated and that they should be managed as public services in the end. I am talking about the car industry. I am talking about the food industry, I am talking about these large digital multinationals... Expropriate and manage them as public services and effectively manage them internationally because it is obvious and I insist on this anyway: the climate crisis will not find a solution at the level of a single country. This really is the question of our planetary organization. No country can hope to get by on its own, we are all dependent on each other. I am not one of those who want to roll back globalization. I even think that globalization will be one part of the solution.”

The advent of a hypertechnological global totalitarian state is anything but desirable. Moreover, according to the theory of self-propagating systems by the mathematician Theodore Kaczynski, this is very unlikely^[29]. Political scientists specializing in international relations also have serious doubts about the feasibility of global planning.^[30].

Like all the other sub-branches of the Technologist Party, Lutte Ouvrière devotes a real cult to industry. For example, in a May 2023 issue, the newspaper Lutte Ouvrière castigated the “alleged reindustrialization” of the Macron government.^[31].

Anne Hidalgo (left)

Member of the Socialist Party (PS), mayor of Paris, candidate for the 2022 presidential election, Anne Hidalgo is regularly attacked by the right for the supposedly radical ecological measures that her administration would impose in the capital. An overview of her campaign program shows that Anne Hidalgo does belong to the technologist party.

“I believe in reindustrialization in a low-carbon world. I propose to launch four industrial “odysseys” to meet major current and future needs: health, energy, mobility and digital technology^[32].”

Or even:

“Reindustrialization must be seen as a driver of our country's ecological transition.^[33] ”

Xavier Bertrand (right)

President of the Hauts-de-France Regional Council, candidate in 2022 and minister in the Villepin and then Fillon governments, Xavier Bertrand wants to do what everyone else does. The Final Solution is Reindustrialization!

“I want us to be a great industrial nation again.”

Amen.

Rachida Dati (right)

Lawyer, advisor and spokesperson for Nicolas Sarkozy during his campaign in 2007, Rachida Dati wants electro-propelled zombies guided by artificial intelligence everywhere.

“Energy and mobility are two real major issues for the future.

With regard to mobility, the mobility transition should not be constrained. It is necessary to rely on artificial intelligence to treat mobility. And go on clean mobility.

Deindustrialization has impoverished the country and reindustrialization depends on political will. However, the political class is less courageous: politicians are reluctant to take risks. It's a shame because France is an innovative country^[34].”

François Ruffin (far left)

Deputy, journalist, editor-in-chief of the magazine Fakir and director of the movie Thank you Boss, François Ruffin has been complaining about the decline of French industry for years already. Recently, he repeated in the economic and financial newspaper La Tribune.

“Why did French industry leave forty years ago? Because our elites decided that factories were past, outdated, that they polluted, that they had to turn to services, banks and insurance, that we could just keep, eventually, aeronautics and luxury^[35].”

It is true that today, the industry no longer pollutes. It's clean, thanks to technological progress. Everything is better, isn't it Fabrice Nicolino?

“[...] men are chemical waste, street dumps full of toxic products^[36].”

Like most leftists, François Ruffin criticizes Macron's industrialization policy, which never goes fast enough.

“Let's not sell illusions: there is no industrial recovery today. The share of industry in added value has fallen: from 14.3% to 12.7% in one term of Emmanuel Macron^[37].”

Ruffin is a skilful tactician using methods similar to those of Lenin to seduce (that is, rolling in flour) the various currents on the left. He is doing the rounds of environmental media to defend a “red-green reconciliation”^[38] or promote a “climate war economy”^[39] ”. As a reminder, in Marxist-Leninist language, a “reconciliation” is a requirement of submission and obedience.

Another smoking tactic, Ruffin criticizes the concept of progress and technology in his latest book to recover the popular outcry against 5G. You only have to listen to him for five minutes to see that he is talking nonsense, considering technology as a neutral “tool.”^[40] or presenting the post-1945 modernization policy as something wonderful with a broad consensus, and not as authoritarian planning for the industrialization of the country led by technocracy^[41]. Ask the inhabitants of dozens of French mountain villages drowned under water for the construction of hydroelectric dams how they experienced the “Trente Glorieuses”^[42] ”.

In short, Ruffin proposes the same social project as all his comrades who are members of the technologist party.

Sandrine Rousseau (ecologist)

Professor and researcher in economic sciences and deputy, Sandrine Rousseau was one of the pillars of Europe Écology Les Verts. With Maxence Cortez, Gaël Giraud, Timothée Parrique or even Jean-Marc Jancovici, she is one of those harmful technocrats who exploit the ecological and climate disaster to make a new industrial recovery desirable.^[43].

Sandrine Rousseau is a techno-fanatic from the beginning, as shown by the projects and institutions she has supported over the past ten years in her stronghold in Lille: the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA), responsible for configuring the “Smart City” of the future; the “Third Industrial Revolution” (that of networks) of the futurologist Jeremy Rifkin; the Energy Commission Atomique (CEA), located in the Euratechnologies competitiveness cluster; the Institute of Electronics, Micro-Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEMN)^[44].

During an interview in 2021, to the question “do you think China is becoming an ecological power? Do you think his model is desirable? ”, Sandrine Rousseau answers:

“China has long told us that it cannot have the same environmental standards as us because it is an emerging economy. Today the Chinese emit more per capita than the Europeans. It is a serious problem. I believe that China can become an ecological power but it is not yet taking the path despite the commitment made last year by President Xi to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. But I don't want to underestimate the power of Chinese mobilization and planning. We have seen the role that China has played for example in the renewable industry with solar or wind energy by rapidly dominating these technologies and the industrial value chain that surrounds it. China can therefore be a key player in the global ecological transition. It will have to be anyway.^[45].”

This is a point she shares with the nuclear-crat Jancovici, who believes that Chinese techno-totalitarianism is a “good compromise.”^[46] ” to get accepted a reduction in emissions of 4% per year.

Bruno Le Maire (right)

Normalian and enarch, Bruno Le Maire made his career with the UMP before joining the government of Édouard Philippe in 2017 as Minister of the Economy. His creed? The same refrain as all the others: “industrial relocation” Über alles !

“With the President of the Republic, with the Prime Minister, we will therefore engage France in rapid, massive and planned green reindustrialization. With one objective: for France to become the first green industry nation in Europe^[47] ”

François Hollande (left)

Socialist, enarch, former President of the Republic wanting to “accelerate the turn towards the industry of the future”^[48] ”, François Hollande is a clone of the technologist party. In a speech delivered in 2017, he celebrated France's industrial past and invited us to “believe in industry”.

“Industry occupies a particular place in the history of our country; hence the importance of the anchoring that Louis GALLOIS spoke of in order to say what France's strength should be through its factories. There are sectors that have particularly marked the country's industrial history. Textile, automotive and aeronautics are among the best known. Then there were other sectors that appeared. But there is no old or new industry. There is industry; and to believe in industry is to believe in the future; because there is no country that can consider its development, its growth, its future without there being an industrial base. Products and objects must be manufactured so that there can then be uses and services that can be offered to the consumer^[49].”

Nicolas Sarkozy (right)

Business lawyer, former President of the Republic involved in a long series of villainous cases, Nicolas Sarkozy cut his teeth at the RPR and then at the UMP. But like all his comrades in the Technologist Party, Sarkozy loves Industry more than anything in the world.

“Now, we must work as a priority for growth, for competitiveness, for re-industrialization, which alone will allow us to create jobs and purchasing power.^[50].”

And the left was already criticizing the right for this “supposed reindustrialization”. The same charade could last for centuries if no one puts an end to it. Simone Weil warned us 80 years ago that political parties should be abolished.^[51].

Fabien Roussel (far left)

Journalist, member of the French Communist Party (PCF), deputy and presidential candidate in 2022, Fabien Roussel presented himself as the defender of French gastronomy accessible to all French people.

“Good wine, good meat, good cheese: that's French gastronomy.

The best way to defend it is to allow the French to have access to it^[52].”

Communists have always run away from us with the idea that the people could have access to bourgeois opulence, thanks to technical progress, without depreciating the quality of the products. Except that mass-producing wine, meat, cheese is inevitably the same as producing shit. The only solution to have accessible quality food is food and peasant autonomy defended by L'Atelier paysan^[53].

“Redirect public aid primarily towards abandoned VSEs and SMEs, in order to reindustrialize France^[54].”

Another classic electoral lie among members of the Technologist Party, pitting big businesses against small businesses, basically making it look like the State doesn't care about MSMEs.

In addition to an economy totally managed by the State, Fabien Roussel obviously wants to “reindustrialize the country.”^[55].”

Valérie Pécresse (right)

A graduate of HEC and ENA, advisor to Jacques Chirac, member of the UMP and then founder of the Soyons Libres party in 2017, Valérie Pécresse is, like all parasites of her kind, a professional in the accumulation of mandates^[56]. The least we can say is that his program is very innovative compared to that of his younger classmates.

“I will make reindustrialization a major national cause during my five-year term.

I want to promote an innovation of “doing”, an industrial innovation that allows France to take off in cutting-edge technologies^[57].”

Like her ecologist, socialist and extreme left/right comrades, Valérie Pécresse wants to “restore the State in its role as a strategist and strongly encourage companies to invest in the key sectors of the circular and low-carbon economy.^[58].”

Marion Maréchal (far right)

Niece of Marine Le Pen, an activist with the National Front since 2008, elected deputy in 2012, vice-president of the Reconquest party, Marion Maréchal advocates the same thing as all her technologist colleagues. Industry Über alles ! In an op-ed published in L'Opinion, she's lying, like all the technocratic mafia. It presents industrial relocation and the Made in France as essential to “meet environmental challenges.” The strategic state must take the lead in “establishing a clear, simple, stable fiscal, regulatory and educational environment.”^[59].”

“We need to make the industry a national priority again. If the government wants to keep its promise of reindustrialization, let it start by creating a favorable economic environment!

France is the second country in Europe where production taxes are the highest. Twice as much as in Italy and four times as much as in Germany. Labor costs are also among the highest in Europe^[60].”

Clémentine Autain (far left)

A political background at the PCF then a member of LFI (La France Insoumise), deputy, Clémentine Autain is also director of the publication of the magazine Regards. Like her fellow technologists on the extreme left and the extreme right, she regrets deindustrialization and severely criticizes the reindustrialization of Macron, which she considers too soft and lacking in ambition.

“However, reindustrialization is an urgent social, ecological and territorial necessity. The loss of our industry is not inevitable but the result of political choices, those that led to the big move of the world^[61].”

Citing the environmental activist Camille Étienne, Clémentine Autain accuses Macron of having chosen “impotence”. In other words, both women believe that the key to the ecological problem lies in the omnipotence of the state. We would have expected more lucidity from women who call themselves feminists. Even more surprisingly, Clémentine Autain criticizes “growth, a crazy Macronist obsession”. It is true that reindustrializing the country has nothing to do with a growth policy. Moreover, global GDP has been decreasing since the beginning of the industrial revolution, the Earth is flat and man has not walked on the Moon.

Yannick Jadot (ecologist)

A member of the Greens since the end of the 1990s, director of Greenpeace campaigns and then MEP for Europe Ecology The Greens (EELV), Yannick Jadot was an ecological candidate for the 2022 presidential election. His program? A “major plan” in order to “accelerate the energy transition and relocations”^[62] ”, like all the others.

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (far right)

Deputy and president of Debout la France, little Nicolas wants to reindustrialize the country. Like his comrades, he spends his time saying that the reindustrialization of the Macronist regime is a “fiasco.”^[63] ”.

Laurent Wauquiez (right)

Normalien, enarch, president of the Republicans and president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Council, Laurent Wauquiez did not only dye his hair white to appear more experienced^[64], like everyone else, he believes that industry is the solution to climate change.

“An ecological policy in France is not about closing factories, it is on the contrary about producing more at home and reducing imports. The first response to climate change is the reindustrialization of our country^[65].”