Jean-Marie Le Pen

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mainly discusses Jean-Marie Le Pen in connection with Michel Clouscard and the phrase "Beneath the paving stones, Le Pen"1. On this reading, the path that starts with Cohn-Bendit ends with Le Pen2. The passages do not all agree: in one, Le Pen is presented as the embodiment of the neo-fascism that came out of May 68; in another, as not being the one Clouscard meant by that term3. He distinguishes "facho-Poujadism", which he considers ineffective, from real fascism4. He points out that the Front National was founded with former Waffen-SS members and collaborators and polled only 1 to 3% at the time5. He also mentions the Ahmed Moulay affair of 1957 and the pun "Durafour crématoire". In his view, this far right has always been economically liberal, Atlanticist and pro-European, and opposed both to nationalisation and to the tricolour flag, unlike his daughter6. He adds that Le Pen only belatedly took up the flag of sovereignty, which the left had abandoned.

1. 1Dominique Pagani sur Michel Clouscard - Les chemins de la praxis 1/28 Dec 2015 · 13:07
2. 2NÉOFASCISME ET IDÉOLOGIE DU DÉSIR : Michel CLOUSCARD toujours d'actualité ? - avec Dominique PAGANI23 May 2026 · 2:10
3. 3#2 Rousseau, un monde qui commence20 Sept 2014 · 32:57
4. 4Rencontre Dominique Pagani - Bernard Friot - 1er Juin 201812 Jun 2018 · 2:26:18
5. 5Pour une apocalypse "fraiche et joyeuse" ?24 Jun 2024 · 59:56
6. 6Pour une apocalypse "fraiche et joyeuse" ?24 Jun 2024 · 2:08:20

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