Mitterrand

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani treats Mitterrand as the typical right-wing man who gives himself the appearance of the left. He recalls his time in the Camelots du roi and in Vichy, the photo in which he is introduced to Pétain, Foucault's remark "Mitterrand is Vichy", and the fact that he took over the PS in 1971 without holding a party card1. He places him in the centre-left of the "extreme centre", which he considers indistinguishable from Giscard's centre-right2. He criticises him for wanting to take three million votes from the PCF3, for aligning with Atlanticism, notably in the Euromissile crisis4, for carrying out the largest number of privatisations and for speeding up the liberal-libertarian turn described by Clouscard5. He often returns to the 1989 bicentenary: in his view, the Revolution was commemorated with shame, and Robespierre was turned into an executioner6. He also mentions the La Baule speech and the African policy that followed, as well as how the former leftists of 68 rallied to him and were given posts.

1. 110#7 L'éco-nazillonisme "post-moderne" - Le Gorgias de Platon23 Dec 2021 · 2:06:31
2. 2La répression du sujet dans la société civile bourgeoise9 Aug 2025 · 45:44
3. 3[ENTRETIEN] DOMINIQUE PAGANI - Michel Clouscard et la trahison de mai 687 Feb 2025 · 53:16
4. 4Ni gauche ni droite ? Islamo gauchisme ?17 Oct 2023 · 1:25:04
5. 59 #17 La métaphore géopolitique • Planck • Descartes • Clouscard • Dominique Pagani17 Mar 2021 · 1:26:35
6. 6D. Pagani / Réponse de M. Clouscard à C. Morilhat • Seconde Partie10 Sept 2019 · 2:17:14

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