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The [[French]] and [[Dutch]] [[NO]] to the project of [[Europe]]an [[constitution]] was a clear-cut case of what in the "[[French theory]]" is referred to as a <i>[[floating signifier]]</i>: a NO of confused, [[inconsistency|inconsistent]], [[overdetermination|overdetermined]] [[meaning]]s, a kind of container in which the defense of [[workers]]' [[rights]] coexists with [[racism]], in which the blind reaction to a perceived [[threat]] and [[fear]] of [[change]] coexist with vague [[utopianism|utopian]] hopes. We are told that the NO was really a NO to many other things: to the [[Anglo-Saxon]] [[neoliberalism]], to [[Chirac]] and the present [[French]] [[government]], to the influx of the [[immigrant]] [[workers]] from [[Poland]] who lower the [[wage]]s of the French workers, etc.etc. The real [[struggle]] is going on now: the struggle for the <i>[[meaning]]</i> of this NO - who will appropriate it? Who - if anyone - will translate it into a [[coherency|coherent]] alternate [[political]] [[vision]]?

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