The LDH attracts educated secular leftists who resent party discipline

Evidence

Ligue activists often tend to be those who left the 1968-era far Left because they had a greater attachment than their erstwhile comrades to individual liberty and ‘bourgeois freedoms’, for which LDH activism allowed a suitable and respectable outlet. Again, this is a long-term continuity, paralleling the 1923 ban imposed by the Communist Party on its members joining the Ligue, regarded as petit-bourgeois, sentimental humanists. The sociological profile of ligueurs today appears to lend some support to this stereotype: the Sciences Po survey found that they are typically highly educated, upper-middle class and without religious beliefs. As Eric Agrikiolansky argues, the Ligue often appeals to precisely those intellectuals who, whichever party of the Left they happen to be members of, resent having to follow the party line. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1347 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The LDH attracted leftists attached to bourgeois freedoms over party line; Electoral loyalty to left parties did not translate into dependable radical personality structure — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 193; The Ligue recruits intellectuals who resist party discipline and prize individual liberty. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in…, 1347

Broader Connections

• The Ligue recruits intellectuals who resist party discipline and prize individual liberty. #corroborates (0.96) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1347
• The LDH attracted leftists attached to bourgeois freedoms over party line #expands (0.95)