Season 13 · 17 Dec 2024The essence of evil - Innocence of nature, horror of naturalism!- 19:57The Congo was his private property; for rubber, villages were burned and children and women mutilated.
Léopold II de Belgique
Appears in 6 videos · 6 passages, 6 of them in depth.
What Dominique Pagani says
Dominique Pagani mentions Leopold II several times between 2019 and 2024, always starting from the same fact: the Congo was his private property1. He stresses the atrocities committed to exploit rubber and notes that they are never talked about1. He presents the King of the Belgians as responsible for the greatest slaughter ever inflicted on a single people2. In the more recent sessions, he describes the practices: villages burned, women and children mutilated, children's arms cut off. He links them to the orders given for rubber output and puts the toll at 10 to 15 million dead, or 10 to 12 million depending on the session345. He makes this point in varied contexts: a reflection on money, work and freedom, a session on the dialectics of identity and difference, an interview on imperialism in the Sahel, and a session on the essence of evil5. From one talk to the next, what he says stays the same.
- 1Argent, travail, liberté3 Aug 2019 · 23:09
- 2#10 • Retour aux logiques du sujet11 Jun 2020 · 1:16:27
- 3AFRIQUE SAHÉLIENNE ET IMPÉRIALISME : Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger - avec Dominique PAGANI23 Mar 2024 · 9:28
- 4Pour une apocalypse "fraiche et joyeuse" ?24 Jun 2024 · 25:34
- 5L'essence du mal - Innocence de la nature, horreur du naturalisme !17 Dec 2024 · 19:57
Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Who is this?Leopold II (9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909) was the second king of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909, and the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908. Born in Brussels as the second but eldest-surviving son of King Leopold I and Queen Louise, Leopold succeeded his father to the Belgian throne in 1865 and reigned for 44 years until his death, the longest reign of a Belgian monarch to date. He died without surviving legitimate sons; the current king of the Belgians, Philippe, descends from his nephew and successor, Albert I. […]
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Season 13 · 17 Dec 2024The essence of evil - Innocence of nature, horror of naturalism!
Season 12 · 24 Jun 2024For a "fresh and joyful" apocalypse?- 25:34The Congo was his private property; his orders for rubber output caused 10 to 12 million deaths.
Talks · 23 Mar 2024SAHELIAN AFRICA AND IMPERIALISM: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger - with Dominique PAGANI- 9:28The Congo was his private property; for rubber, children were massacred and had their arms cut off, 10 to 15 million dead.
Season 10 · 6 Oct 202110#2 Dialectics of identity and difference- 1:55:06The Congo was his personal property; exactions of the rubber boom.
Season 8 · 11 Jun 2020#10 • Return to the logics of the subject- 1:16:27The King of the Belgians, owner of the Congo, responsible for the greatest massacre inflicted on a single people.
Talks · 3 Aug 2019Money, work, freedom- 23:09The Congo was his private property; massive atrocities for rubber, never spoken of.