Opposed to republican universalism which recognizes only citizens with equal rights, communitarianism links individuals to ethnic or religious affiliations. They justify the claim of own rights, impact the political organization of the country. In France, it was from the Creil scarves affair in 1989, then with the rise of Islamism, that this word imposed itself in the public debate. Its use is more political or media than sociological. Because if we see what he is aiming for, the exacerbation of community attachment – as nationalism exacerbates national feeling – the whole question is to locate the border between belonging to a community and communitarianism. In 2020, President Macron chooses the term “separatism” to announce a bill but the difficulty persists. Isn’t the law of 1905 a law of “separation”? Finally, the text promulgated in August bears the name of “law reinforcing respect for the principles of the Republic”.
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