So they are going to get obliterated in next month's parliamentary elections, and will only exist politically locally, in cities where they are in a working alliance with the socialists (like in Paris, where they had a major say in shaping transport policy, for instance).

It's a pathtic waste that their ideas are completely drowned out, mostly for 'purity' reasons (because it makes it easy to caricature them as out of touch).

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes