Pompidou

Summary

Dominique Pagani mainly discusses Pompidou through Clouscard's reading of May 68. He sees him as "the good-natured uncle": the liberal who, although he seems to oppose the libertarians, forms according to Clouscard "one and the same entity" with Cohn-Bendit, allied with him to push de Gaulle aside1. He recounts a lunch at which Pompidou is said to have acknowledged this analysis: you do not shoot at the students, who are the country's future elite, bourgeois sons meant to take over23. He also attributes to him the idea that Vincennes lets the protesters make their revolution in a closed vessel. He notes that Pompidou initiated Beaubourg, even though he found the project too avant-garde4. Elsewhere, he links him to the ordinances on Social Security, to ongoing privatisation and to the "rabbit hutches", and cites him alongside Macron as an example. In connection with Adotevi, he presents him as Senghor's classmate in khâgne (the preparatory class for the École normale), interested in négritude and acting as a go-between for Senghor and de Gaulle.

1. 1Radio Galère: Michel Clouscard (2)7 Jul 2012 · 0:48
2. 2Everything is allowed, nothing is possible! Michel Clouscard, May 68 and the capitalism of seduction14 Jul 2021 · 15:24
3. 3Michel Clouscard and the betrayal of May 687 Feb 2025 · 58:48
4. 4Everything is allowed, nothing is possible! Michel Clouscard, May 68 and the capitalism of seduction14 Jul 2021 · 30:54

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