Cohn-Bendit

What Dominique Pagani says

Following Michel Clouscard, Dominique Pagani sees Daniel Cohn-Bendit as the metonymy of the "societal" May 68, which he contrasts with the social 68 of the CGT and the Grenelle agreements1. According to him, collective memory, shaped by the media, makes him the key man of 68, the "enfant terrible" of the play. He sums him up with a recurring formula: "libertarian in 68, liberal in 78" (sometimes "in 98"). Cohn-Bendit calls himself a liberal-libertarian, which amounts to taking up Clouscard's concept without knowing it2. He stresses his alliance with the liberal Pompidou, and later his call to vote for Macron. He also points to his contempt for the miner, dismissed as "integrated" or as a "consumer"3, and to a revolt that begins with access to the girls' dormitories, where the societal eclipses the social. He reads his outburst against "Gaullo-communism" as an admission that recalls Vichy4. With Clouscard, he holds that neo-fascism comes from him, not from the far right, and he likens his programme to a formula of Mussolini's5. Finally, he makes him a figure of the ecology that emerged from 68.

1. 1#2 Rousseau, un monde qui commence20 Sept 2014 · 47:22
2. 2TOUT EST PERMIS, RIEN N'EST POSSIBLE ! Michel Clouscard, Mai 68 et le capitalisme de la séduction14 Jul 2021 · 18:24
3. 3C comme Consommation17 Dec 2014 · 4:34
4. 4K comme Karl25 Dec 2014 · 8:06
5. 5Rencontre Dominique Pagani - Bernard Friot - 1er Juin 201812 Jun 2018 · 2:30:49

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