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READ ALSO: Pierre-André Taguieff: “Being a Republican means defending universalist anti-racism”īecause “the historic crisis of humanity” that we are going through is a moment in its development that universalism can enable us to resolve. And all these challenges, all these proven or emerging crises, have in common that they require republican responses, based on universalism. “Do we have any other choice than human patriotism, namely to reconcile all that is essential to us for the survival of our species on a viable planet? »įrom the return of empires to climate change from the biotechnology revolution capable of transforming human nature to the unification of the five continents in a sixth called the Internet of the new definition of the sovereignty of nations passing through the new space as much as by the ability of societies to meet the health requirements of the “time of viruses” from the revolution of longevity to that of work from the delirious and grotesque explosion of inequalities to the desire for sobriety and aspiration to regain time, it seems that the century that has opened invites us to reinvent ourselves.

The Anthropocene is emerging with the omnipotence of science, of a generation of men mastering the atom and the genes, “ripping open the mask of nature to contemplate the face of God”: the new stage of our civilization. The Holocene allowed sedentarization, the birth of agricultural societies and the entry into the Neolithic: our civilisation. For the first time in 10,000 years, the history of mankind has been impacted by geological time: we are experiencing the transition from the Holocene to the Anthropocene. However, we must adorn ourselves with humility to take up the challenges that the historical situation demands. Having rocked the world at the end of the 18th century e allows a certain freedom with humility. This is the contribution of this people who are masters of the universal narrative: believing and assuming that their answers have exemplary value in “both hemispheres”. It is there, the singularity of France, “mother of the arts, weapons and laws”. To be a Republican on December 9, 1905, was to vote for the separation of Church and State, making men once and for all responsible for their destiny, now rid of divine whims.įrom the abolition of privileges to that of the death penalty, the republican spirit will have responded to an ever-renewed requirement: to meet the challenges of history by providing them with answers drawn from the best of sources, universalism. The Nation was to snatch hearts and minds from the Church and embark on a formidable literacy movement for girls and boys, the State assuming to be a great forge of citizens producing French people struck and shaped in the “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” alloy, the metal of the Great Nation. To be a Republican on Jand Mameant voting the Ferry laws, establishing free, public, secular and compulsory education. READ ALSO: Emmanuel Maurel: “The French are more republican than their leaders” The very young Republic then had to guard against anything that would have threatened its survival. To be a republican on January 17, 1793, was to be a deputy to the convention and to vote for the death of the King. It is moreover to this art of peaceful dispute that Marianne invites us into this summer exercise. The surprise of June (the legislative elections) was indeed a ruse of the civic body which used the majority ballot to impose proportional representation, thus tempering the Caesarism of the Fifth Republic and imposing a new apprenticeship on us: parliamentary democracy. It is moreover to this rediscovered art that the new Assemblé is invited to conform.

“The republican spirit will have responded to an ever-renewed demand. Whatever the depth of the disagreements, the search for a compromise for the benefit of all requires that everyone dominates in the expression of the art of civilized disagreement. We can however regret that the spirit of the times has moved us away from elegant forms of controversy where the confrontation of ideas and the clash of temperaments between accomplished democrats respect the codes of propriety.

So much the better: we must rejoice that everything that touches on the nature of the Republic and presides over the pursuit of the French narrative in human civilization is a shared passion. We are in the era of the republican injunction. READ ALSO: By the way, what does it mean to be a Republican? “Marianne” launches its big debate of the summerĢ30 years later, the place of the republican question in the public debate makes it an essential subject on which the actors of the national discussion are summoned to position themselves clearly.