So why all the French hate?

EXPLAIN!!!

Or is it just because the french were such an ass for not going to war with US?

then in what sense is Gaullist philosophy antiquated?

Lip service perhaps? This is politics. You seem to have better awareness of what the French are up to, so point out some actions.

is irrelevant, technology has nothing to do with political philosophy.

Oh, really? I'm wouldn't be so sure about that. Technology doesn't exist in isolation, it comes with other things too. For example, higher education, increased communication, and a population that has more time to spend at leisure. People don't live in shitholes, they live in relative luxury. Even the economic struction becomes far different.

the fall of Soviet political philosophy began inexorably with the death of Lenin.

I think you underestimated the power Stalin had. The man massacred millions, but also pushed Russia from some third-rate feudal system to a nuclear superpower. And, uh, Stalin and Yugoslavia weren't that closely related. Tito liked to keep the USSR at arm's length.

But that doesn't matter. Before the 90s, USSR was a oligarchy. Now it's... well it's heading back that direction, but for a while it was distictly different from what came before.

The fall of Apartheid in South Africa was a demographic inevitability from the time of the Boer War,

So what? The political change there has been huge. Once it was functional society run by white men, now it's a free society (but in the shitter). If that's not politically different, then damn...

"Rhode^H^H^H^H^HZimbabwe" pardon?

Zimbabwe was formerly named Rhodesia. And the change there has been large too.

Are you also going to dismiss this with a wave of your hand? Whoops, a few white men running a functional society, but now it's run by a dictator who's busy starving his own people to death. Nope, nothing has changed there. Not at all.