As he visits the US for the first time, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France Insoumise, writes about the collapse of triumphal capitalist narratives and sets out an alternative vision for humanity that can save us from a dystopian future.
Communists do not oppose egoism to selflessness or selflessness to
egoism, nor do they express this contradiction theoretically either in
its sentimental or in its highflown ideological form; they rather
demonstrate its material source, with which it disappears of itself. The
Communists do not preach morality at all.
They do not put to people the moral demand: love one another, do not
be egoists, etc.; on the contrary, they are very well aware that
egoism, just as much selflessness, is in definite circumstances a
necessary form of the self-assertion of individuals. Hence, the
Communists by no means want to do away with the “private individual” for
the sake of the “general”, selfless man. That is a statement of the
imagination.
—Marx, The German Ideology