The president of Leclerc’s strategic committee, Michel-Edouard Leclerc, called for “either the suppression or the generalization” Health pass to all shops, without distinction. Through this request, we can assume that he hopes for a reestablishment of “free and undistorted” competition that eliminates the differential obligation of the sanitary pass among sellers. But his request also illustrates the lack of strategic vision of the French bourgeoisie, since, precisely, if the “generalization” of the health pass in France would restore an appearance of “free competition” among physical stores in France, it would do the opposite between physical and virtual stores on the one hand and between French and international stores on the other. Leclerc is a global company, and it is therefore on the world market that it must establish itself; if a competing company is not hampered by the health pass either because it is virtual or because it is located abroad, it has a comparative advantage that will end up being decisive against Leclerc.
On the other hand, Leclerc calls for the maintenance of the state’s “support system” for sellers, with its financing of partial unemployment, thereby illustrating a lack of global economic intelligence. Money has no value, it is only the sign of the value that already exists within the goods actually produced; these commodities derive their value from labor. If production decreases, if partial unemployment expands, then the economy collapses and the increase in the money supply generates inflation. State subsidies are then only a means of plundering the last resources of society in a declining economy.
Leclerc announces inflation of 10% on sugar, 23% on pasta, 9 to 15% on cold meats, 15% on vinegar and 11% on olive oil and complains about naughty speculators that cause inflation. But if, on the one hand, production falls because of sanitary restrictions, and on the other the money supply increases because of subsidies, inflation is inevitable, whatever the astute negotiations of Mr. Leclerc.