Poutine

Vladimir Poutine · President of the Russian Federation · 1952

Appears in 36 videos · 48 passages, 12 of them in depth.

Summary

Dominique Pagani speaks of Putin mainly in relation to the war in Ukraine, and almost always with the same reservation: he is not his "cup of tea," and he would not vote for him if he were Russian1. In Russia, he would rather vote for the Communist Party, the main opposition2. He stresses Putin's anticommunism: Putin blames Lenin for giving the nationalities their sovereignty, Ukraine included, and leans toward the great Russia of the tsars rather than toward Soviet nostalgia3 4. He nonetheless defends him against NATO, which is encircling Russia, and credits him with lifting Russia out of the humiliation of the Yeltsin years, notably by forcing the oligarchs to keep their money in the country5 6. He also notes how the West presents him as a "fascist" or a new Hitler, and equates pacifism with support for Putin. Finally, he places him in the African context, where heads of state refuse to arrest him7.

Summary produced automatically from 48 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. He has been described as the de facto leader of Russia since 1999. […]

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Cycle 10 · 24 Mar 2022#11 Ukraine: mathematics unites men, politics divides them (Aristotle)

40:36Came from Yeltsin's team and an obscure background; he would vote neither for him nor for his party.
45:20His popularity comes from having forced the oligarchs to leave their money in Russia.
1:16:51Not a communist: he criticized the Bolsheviks for the autonomy granted to nations, while claiming to be proud to lead a multinational state.

Cycle 10 · 24 Feb 2022#10 Ukraine: from the problem of “edges” to the unleashing of war

29:18His nighttime speech announces the recognition of the republics of Lugansk and Donetsk.
1:22:01In an anticommunist speech, he reproaches Lenin for having given sovereignty back to the nationalities; he does not want to revive the USSR.

Cycle 12 · 14 Aug 2024Too late?

1:21:02Anti-communist, not to his taste, but he would always defend him against NATO.

Cycle 12 · 11 Jul 2024After the vote: entering a zone of turbulence

1:32:47He hates communists; it is not Soviet nostalgia that guides him but the strangling of his country by NATO.

Talks · 23 Mar 2024Sahelian Africa and imperialism: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger

6:11African current affairs mean Putin in Africa.
1:14:29He would not vote for him if he were Russian and Russia were not encircled; Putin puts Lenin on trial, but he defends his policy against NATO.
1:34:05If his Russia can help the renewal coming from the South, he does not want to be against it.

Cycle 11 · 29 Jun 2023Worldliness in Clouscard: Aragon and the positivity of the negative

1:08:08As a Russian citizen, he would not necessarily vote for him, but would defend Russia against NATO's push toward war.
1:32:43African heads of state refuse to arrest him on Western orders.

Cycle 11 · 26 Apr 2023Worldliness in Clouscard, or “the dominant ideology”

1:15:27He would not vote for him, reproaches him for his anti-communism, but defends him for having restored dignity to Russia.
1:23:14His crimes, next to the Sudanese carnage, are a candle next to the sun.

Cycle 10 · 7 Jul 2022#16 Michel Clouscard: “There are no holidays in the concept!”

44:45He would not vote for him if he lived in Russia.
51:14He is a declared anti-Bolshevik, who reproaches Lenin for having granted too much autonomy to Russia's regions.

Cycle 10 · 27 Jan 2022#8 Philosophising under threat

33:16Not his "cup of tea"; he would not necessarily vote for him, but he defends him against those who say that he finally says "nyet" to NATO.
37:39Russia recovered with him from the humiliation of the Yeltsin era.

Cycle 14 · 4 Feb 2026The return of fascism

44:48Pacifism is equated with support for Putin; he recalls that Putin is anticommunist.

Cycle 14 · 29 Aug 2025State and state apparatus: the conflict between public and private

30:55anticommunist, not his camp, but preferable to so-called communists who arm the Nazis

Cycle 13 · 15 May 2025Imaginary identity

10:38Some on the right feel sympathy for him because he passes for authoritarian.
1:01:33Anticommunist, opposite of his own political camp, who accuses Lenin of having given Ukraine its independence.

Cycle 13 · 2 Sept 2024Clouscard: The metamorphoses of class struggle

50:54'Not my cup of tea'; the Russian regime is anti-communist.

Cycle 12 · 24 Jun 2024For a “fresh and joyful” apocalypse?

28:28He would not vote for him if he were Russian.
1:30:01Accuses Lenin and the communists of having sold out Ukraine and leans toward the greater Russia of the tsars.