Ni droite ni gauche: la risposta anticonformista alla crisi degli anni Trenta in Francia.

Nonconformists thirties who identified with the slogan "ni droite, ni gauche" had many things in common including the enormous sense of weariness towards a parliamentary democracy in which the parties were unable to cope with the economic crisis, political, social, cultural and value them was overwhelming; then all supported the idea that we should reduce the excessive influence of the state and its bureaucracy and cumbersome resulting in events that could easily be addressed by other institutions closer to citizens, first of all the common. The answers that such groups took to the crisis were mainly conceptual, this was their big problem, could not in fact indicate a clear line of political action. But reflecting on how they developed, one can not grasp important lessons that can be reused to understand and deal with a "today" which, although changed over that period, is often faced with very similar problems as the economic crisis, the resulting in unemployment, the depersonalization and the inability of political parties and governments to provide concrete answers to the needs of citizens. Here, in this my journey into the heart of the French dissidents, those who tried different responses to the crisis than those of the "terrible simplifiers": fascism, Nazism and communism advocated killing the individual and his subservience to the state, it remains - above all else - a reflection on the person. It should then meditate on these issues in an age like ours, because in the serious situation we are living the only hope to build a dynamic and positive political perspective is to create a society which, as rightly assumed Alexandre Marc, will be to force of things «à taille humaine».