Conclusion

Abstract

Abstract The Conclusion sums up the main elements explaining the diffusion of neoliberal reforms over the past forty years in France, in spite of an important social opposition to the neoliberal transformation of the French political economy. The French political crisis stemmed from the break-up of the two social blocs—left and right—that had dominated French political life since the late 1960s. This break-up was in large part the consequence of the implementation of neoliberal reforms. Yet, for the dominant political parties, a furthering of the neoliberal transformation of the French model of capitalism appeared as a possible solution out of the crisis. However, the impossibility to find a sufficiently stable social base for this strategy explained the transformation of the political crisis into a systemic crisis. The Conclusion also sums up how modernism degenerated into neoliberalism, particularly on the left of the political spectrum.