The Dislocation of Vendémiaire (II): The Illusion of National Economics and the Polarization of Political Economy【葡月的错位（二）国民经济学的幻象与政治经济学的极化】【A commentary on the French riots between September and October】

This essay, titled The Dislocation of Vendémiaire, explores the theoretical and practical contradictions within contemporary capitalist society, using the socio-political unrest in France as a backdrop. Grounded in Marxist philosophy and dialectics, the author critically examines the illusion of national economics and the polarization of political economy. By distinguishing between "national economics" (which obscures exploitation through material comfort) and "political economy" (which reveals the deep alienation of social relations), the text argues that modern digital capitalism has stripped workers of their "wealth of real relations" (现实关系的财富). The essay articulates a fundamental shift from the "first struggle" (economic demands for wages and welfare) to the "second struggle" (reclaiming the autonomy of labor production and resisting the reduction of human beings to mere production factors). Ultimately, it posits that the recent French protests represent a historical "dislocation"—an attempt at the second struggle without the necessary political foundation of the first.