Atlanticism

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani approaches Atlanticism through Clouscard. In his view, libertarian liberalism and "libertarian social democracy" served Atlanticism, which entered France through the Mitterrandist left because the French right was tainted by collaboration1. He returns to this point to explain that the liberal-libertarian pair is not dialectical: its two terms are accomplices, allied in 1968 against Gaullism and communism, to the benefit of Atlanticism2. With the war in Ukraine, he separates anti-Americanism, which he places in a right-wing tradition, from the anti-Atlanticism he claims as his own. What he fights is the policy of the American executive, not the American people. Behind the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, he sees a NATO war against Russia. He judges Europeans to be more Atlanticist than part of the American intelligentsia and worries about a France subject to American command3. Later, he argues that the word "West" serves to keep silent about capitalism and Atlanticism. He also refuses to equate science and technology with the American world, and links the question to the decline of the dollar and to the BRICS4.

1. 1D. Pagani / Réponse de M. Clouscard à C. Morilhat • Seconde Partie10 Sept 2019
2. 2Naissance et carnage - Le massacre des Innocents22 Dec 2023
3. 3#11 UKRAINE : La mathématique unit les hommes, la politique les divise (Aristote)24 Mar 2022
4. 4La mondanité chez Clouscard - Le choc des mondes ?9 Jul 2023

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