Jospin

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Lionel Jospin mainly to illustrate a trajectory: a Trotskyist in 68, he becomes Prime Minister of the Socialist Party refounded by Mitterrand and declares that his programme "is not socialist". Pagani often comes back to this phrase between 2014 and 202612, usually in his commentaries on Michel Clouscard and Neo-fascism and the Ideology of Desire, to describe the former leftist turned liberal manager3. He also stresses that more was privatised under his government than under any other4. He sees this as the unravelling of what was won at the Liberation5. In his view, speaking of Jospin's "failure" assumes that the goal was a good one: judging by the privatisations, perhaps he actually succeeded6. Pagani also mentions that Jospin considered the Corsican problem insoluble, that the PCF did not want to upset him, and that his former supporters have moved to the right. In 2024, he counts him among the "zombies" who keep coming back.

1. 1K comme Karl25 Dec 2014 · 7:01
2. 2Guerre, néo-fascisme : le libéralisme-libertaire3 Mar 2023 · 1:06:23
3. 3#11 UKRAINE : La mathématique unit les hommes, la politique les divise (Aristote)24 Mar 2022 · 1:39:43
4. 4Left-washing : Les wokes sont-ils les plus endormis ?17 Nov 2021 · 29:49
5. 5#11 • Retour aux logiques du sujet21 Jun 2020 · 1:06:35
6. 6Keller (Helen)15 Feb 2016 · 32:55

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