THE RED HALF OF THE RED-GREEN ALLIANCE: The Communist Network Burning Down France. “It seems tendentious to include those international commies merely publishing encouragement to their Gauloises-smoking red brethren. But one wonders how one ostensibly capitalist nation can support so many different communist parties. And presumably numerous dissertations could be written on the conditions that resulted in such factionalization. Thinking back to the history of the French Revolution, factionalization seems to be one of the defining characteristics of the country’s politics.”