Nicolas Le Bault – UNDERSTANDING LEFTISM
Essay – 540 pages – Éditions de la Reine Rouge, 2026
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Born in the West within advanced societies among marginal political groups in the 1950s, developed in the intellectual sphere throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and culturally dominant since the late 1990s following the collapse of real socialism, leftism is a substitute ideology, formed from the ashes of three major mass movements that structured the 20th century.
It arises from the dissolution of Marxism-Leninism, the disappearance of social Catholicism, and the decomposition of bourgeois liberalism.
From these three incarnations of a single world-idea, leftism produces both a synthesis and a transcendence, in order to propose a new radical interpretation of reality, through which a project of total transformation of human societies and their organization may be realized.
This book is not an academic study and does not claim to provide an academic definition of leftism, nor to situate the notion within the history of political ideas. Its aim is rather to show that, far more than a current of thought, leftism is a major anthropological phenomenon—a powerful emanation of late modernity and terminal capitalism.
Leftism is a pathology of overproduction, overconsumption, over-organization of the world, and overpopulation. It hardens in times of crisis, when the system, under the weight of accumulation, begins to fracture and break apart.
In order to understand leftism, we will examine in depth the sources and ramifications of this movement of totalitarian essence (which seeks to transform man and abolish private life), and will meticulously describe its implications for reality.
By exploring its genealogy, its actors, its aims, and its practices, we will uncover the revolution now unfolding in the Western world: a complete restructuring of social norms, mentalities, nature, and humanity itself.