(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL Tribune : Murder of Clement Meric: Response to Pierre Carles (fr)

Pierre Carles was known for his excellent work as a director, at least for its business 
legal counsel. We were therefore surprised to see to serve the defense of Esteban Morillo 
in the July-August Monthly Sine. There stands a flamboyant political advocacy for the 
alleged murderer of Clement Meric. ---- Number in a headline : "Pierre Carles Clement 
Meric dissects the case." In fact decryption, there is a poor attempt to analyze quoting 
Marx and Bourdieu to support a flawed argument. The general idea is to point the concealed 
class struggle in the confrontation between Clement Meric and Esteban Morillo, then 
dimension it does exist, but not where Pierre Carles believes detect it. He also took the 
opportunity to tackle the world of journalism, again misused. Behind the political 
confrontation between the extreme left and extreme right militants hiding a social war, 
respectively, white bourgeois heavily endowed with cultural capital and proletariat of 
immigrant origin necessarily ignorant.
 
Nevermind the fact that Pierre Carles, believer distinguish resumes dear to some 
right-wing movements catchphrase - starting with Serge Ayoub which included Esteban 
Morillo - introducing the antifascist as bourgeois against the proles, further assertion 
of reality.
 
He first developed a mechanistic conception, which postulates that all proletarian defends 
necessarily face a bourgeois interest in its class. If this were the case, the revolution 
has already taken place, but it is unfortunately omitted the question of class 
consciousness, as important as that of social origin. In fact, choosing the ranks of the 
extreme right, spreading ideas of hatred racialized workers and organizations of the 
working class, Esteban Morillo was the residual of the bourgeoisie.
 
Carles then spread poorly digested Marxism, placing Clement Meric exploiters in the camp, 
when he, the son of knowledge workers, had no means of producing and selling its labor 
force, in Quick where he was employed. It is finally a class contempt, which postulates 
that if Esteban Morillo did not graduate, he had recourse to violence is necessarily that 
belonged to the "dangerous classes" that are working classes, he came from a disadvantaged 
background involving a "handicap Start " and preventing access to weapons of language, 
which remains unproven.
 
Since his chair apprentice sociologist Pierre Carles gives the sequence of events a 
fanciful interpretation.
 
If the difference between cultural capital Clement Meric, student IEP Paris and Esteban 
Morillo is likely, he actually thinks that Clement, his friends, and the neo-Nazis who 
attacked sat around a tea for some, a beer for others to discuss their qualifications ? 
Esteban and was seized with a fit of rage when he saw Clement sipping his drink up the 
little finger? Which was played in the violence of the shortest tragic street, it 's pure 
and simple hatred, not for a ruling class, but for ideas and values ??in the service of 
the dominated, the perpetrator was detected by identifying Clement and his friends as " 
leftists".
 
Beyond that, it's a totally pessimistic vision of the working class before us. These would 
be unable to control their violent impulses or to demonstrate a sense of repartee, whose 
only capital their " brute force". In other words, Pierre Carles, no culture for the 
popular classes outside of the dominant culture that he has. At that rate, what good 
fight, as called the director at the end of his article, since the workers are socially 
determined not see beyond the tip of their knuckles ?
 
This neglect is all the policy -making authority and discursive they have and show to 
resist exploitation and relegation. This view, similar to that of the bourgeoisie of the 
nineteenth century is not surprising in an author, filmmaker, who begins his article by 
lamenting that journalists do not have " disposed of" good " analysis tools." Itself 
spreads its references, arguments from authority, in short, puts his cultural capital on 
the table, to adopt a point of view that any complex of bourgeois pitying gross trapped by 
his own savagery and a class justice.
 
For the other target Pierre Carles, also extremely literate left unable to understand the 
uneducated masses, it is the journalists, narcissus drowned in the worship of a socially 
close to them martyr. However, if in the early days the press may have provided an 
engaging portrait of Clement Meric, one would have expected from Pierre Carles he 
dismounts the media lynching he then been from the right, after the false claims of the 
RTL with the aggressor.
 
Yes, a clash of classes is played rue de Caumartin the day of the death of Clement Meric. 
Yes he was denied in the media. For all those who filed the murder of Clement Meric in the 
" fait divers " who returned back to back militants of the extreme left and extreme right, 
who saw in this event a fight of excited young, so that it opposed anti-capitalist 
activists to neo -Nazi activists.
 
As Pierre Carles we regret that class divisions are not yet abolished and that the school 
system is to reproduce more than to erase. And we regret even more that we know the far 
right thrives discouragement of certain fractions of the working class, it appears to be a 
wrong use of social categories cornered by the capitalist system. It is against this as 
Clement Meric, student union, fought. But we do not think this is vomiting with rehashed 
arguments of activists who are committed to an egalitarian society and by advocating a 
neo-Nazi assassin that social movement progresses.
 
Friends and fellow Clement Meric