Georges Gastaud

French politician · 1951

Appears in 11 videos · 17 passages, 7 of them in depth.

Summary

Dominique Pagani refers to Georges Gastaud as the founder and leader of the PRCF, a Marxist who claims Marx's legacy and whose defence of the French language against anglicisms he approves of. He notes Gastaud's expression "exterminism" of capitalism. He agrees with him when he protests against those who set Engels against Marx1. In his view, Gastaud's work Lumières communes, whose title pays tribute to both the Enlightenment and the Commune, is a major philosophical contribution, and he recommends it: in it Gastaud makes the dialectics of nature the ontological basis of Marxism2. Pagani grants him the existence of a dialectic independent of man3, but he maintains a disagreement: against the ontology of being that Gastaud calls for, he sets an ontology of becoming4, and he has asked him what the concept of nature adds to that of matter5. In 2020, he considers this disagreement mainly semantic. On ecologism, he finds Gastaud's article intelligent but criticises him for not analysing the symbolic order6.

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Cycle 12 · 28 Feb 2024Clouscard by you: answers to your questions

1:26:31Common LightsA major philosophical contribution that makes much of the dialectic of nature.
1:37:38At the Toulouse conference, Pagani asks him what the concept of nature adds to that of matter.

Talks · 4 Oct 2020Calves and Things: the preface

12:32An intelligent article by the head of the PRCF, who is surprised that Marxists criticize environmentalism but does not analyze the symbolic order.
21:35The author grants him that ecological discourse is too readily reduced to bobos, but this intelligent discourse has not yet emerged.

Cycle 13 · 25 Jul 2025Naturalist ideology: answers to questions

33:21Common LightAn eight-volume work, recommended, in which he makes the dialectic of nature the ontological basis of Marxism.
40:32He grants him the point on the existence of a dialectic independent of man.
59:24Is right to correct the physicist who steps outside his competence and speaks the language of everyday life.

Cycle 9.1 · 17 Dec 2020#9 Benefits and harms of amnesia…

18:52Author of a publication on Engels; he rightly protests against those who oppose Marx and Engels.

Cycle 9.1 · 3 Dec 2020#7 Answers to questions (continued)

41:56Cited among Marxists with differing positions.
1:00:47Intends to rehabilitate a Marxist ontology so as not to leave neopositivists a monopoly on rigor; the disagreement is mostly semantic.