Politics & Power Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen

Le Pen’s line is less a memory than a positioning statement: a bid to launder a career built on provocation through the language of civic hygiene. By listing communism, national-socialism, and fascism in one breath, he reaches for the safest possible moral geometry: three “totalitarianisms” neatly filed, equally rejected, no further questions. It’s the rhetorical equivalent of a politician saying they oppose “extremism” while declining to name the extremism in their own vicinity.

The tell is “in my speeches.” He’s not claiming a consistent politics so much as a consistent performance. The emphasis is on record, on the archive, on what can be cited in a courtroom of public opinion. That matters because Le Pen’s public life was shadowed by accusations of far-right indulgence and, more explosively, his own minimizing comments about the Holocaust. The sentence anticipates the rebuttal: if I condemned fascism, I can’t be that.

The subtext is a familiar move in European postwar politics: treating communism and fascism as symmetrical stains allows a nationalist right to borrow the prestige of anti-fascism without surrendering its nativist project. The anti-communist reflex is standard conservative fare; the anti-Nazi and anti-fascist add-ons are the credibility surcharge.

It works because it sounds like a moral checklist, not an ideology. That’s the point: replace arguments about immigrants, identity, and power with a tidy declaration of decency. The vagueness is protective; it invites agreement while resisting scrutiny.