A breath of fresh air 7

Friends of Jean-Luc Mélenchon find in this book the unparalleled verve Republican tribune, lucidity rare in the political world, the extent of disasters against which we find ourselves: social disaster, ecological disaster, as democratic disaster . His opponents may be able to measure, in reading this book, that the replica they have to be used to Mélenchon should focus on issues far more fundamental than superficial criticisms made him today. Beyond the roughness of the character, long ago in fact that the European left had not produced such a strong alternative proposal to the existing system as that which the Left Front and its figurehead working to build - in particular relying on the example of "citizen revolution" in South America, the title of the book is inspired.

On the merits, Mélenchon seems, with this book turned a corner in the radicalism of his remarks. This is particularly the case on the European question. The European federalist yesterday tire - with regret - the finding of absolute disaster that is the democratic process of European integration in the way - "authoritarian" - follows today.

This book is also marked by the desire to make itself accessible to all: the book makes a big hundred pages, page footnotes give brief notice allowing everyone to situate the authors cited, unlike d other of his writings (including his famous blog), sentences here are not unnecessarily bombastic, one can even say that the language is marked by a clear concise, with a surprising economy of means.