Talks · 23 May 2026NEO-FASCISM AND THE IDEOLOGY OF DESIRE: Is Michel CLOUSCARD still relevant? - with Dominique PAGANI- 44:44There is no society that consumes, only classes; consumers are also producers.
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Dominique Pagani rejects the notion of the "consumer society". He considers it vague and regards it as a misreading. He says he has never seen a society that consumes: there are only societies that produce, and classes or milieus that consume, at the cost of depriving others12. Strictly speaking, a society that consumed what it produces would be socialism, or communism achieved, and we do not live in one3. He adds that consumers are also producers of value. For him, the notion belongs to an ideological vulgate that masks overexploitation4. From 2012 to 2026, he develops this point in connection with Michel Clouscard. He criticises Lordon for attributing to Clouscard a critique of the consumer society, which he calls a "matrix misreading"5.
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