State apparatus

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani treats the distinction between the State and the state apparatus as decisive: the two must never be confused1. By state apparatus he means the set of instruments of power, that is, the police, the army, the courts and Article 49-3, to which he adds the ministerial offices where people talk among themselves about matters that are never made public23. In his view, it is this "oppressive State" that should be called the state apparatus. From 2014 to 2025 he returns to the same thesis: we are subjected to the most powerful and most heavily instrumented state apparatus in history, which serves an absence of State, namely the private45. Under capitalism, this apparatus places itself at the service of the private, which he describes as the negation of the State, its mortal enemy, a hostility or even a hatred toward the State. In 2023 he adds that the state apparatus destroys common property and that it is what demonstrators are fighting against6.

1. 110#6 Guerre et Paix : "Les pulsions de mort progressent en silence..." (Freud)8 Dec 2021 · 17:20
2. 2Guerre, néo-fascisme : le libéralisme-libertaire3 Mar 2023 · 56:32
3. 3ÉTAT ET APPAREIL D'ÉTAT - Le conflit du public et du privé29 Aug 2025 · 10:30
4. 4A comme Antigone15 Dec 2014 · 3:48
5. 5ÉTAT ET APPAREIL D'ÉTAT - Le conflit du public et du privé29 Aug 2025 · 16:26
6. 6UN PRINTEMPS DES PEUPLES ?18 Mar 2023 · 1:52:28

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