Summary
Dominique Pagani treats the Cold War as the moment when the "never again" of 1945 changes target: the "red plague" is hunted rather than the "brown plague"12. Following Clouscard, he reads the Marshall Plan as a material concession made to the working classes to prevent a communist victory. This concession goes hand in hand with an ideological war that leads to May 68 and to the Atlanticist counter-offensive of the 1970s, aimed at eliminating Gaullism and communism3. He draws on concealed historical sequences: the recruitment of former Nazis by the American services from 1946, Heidegger becoming NATO's favourite philosopher, the CIA's funding of FO, the World Anti-Communist League, and Western support for the Khmer Rouge against the background of Sino-Soviet tension456. He challenges Arendt's and Popper's notion of totalitarianism, which he links to Cold War ideology7. In his recent sessions, he dates the beginning of neo-fascism to the Cold War: a fascism that denies being fascist in the name of the free world8.
- 1#4 Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire: on the thought of M. Clouscard26 Sept 2014
- 2#7 Harnessed to confinitude5 May 2020
- 3Everything is allowed but nothing is possible: Michel Clouscard (1)29 Jan 2012
- 4Heidegger, or panzer-philosophy21 May 2021
- 5On the anti-Sovietism of the Khmer Rouge-Greens6 Feb 2025
- 6The silences of the media uproar: the Atlanticist re-Nazification21 Oct 2025
- 7Arendt and Heidegger: the destruction of thought24 Sept 2020
- 8Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire: is Michel Clouscard still relevant?23 May 2026
Introduction produced automatically from the 10 sessions on this theme, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the sessions.
The 9 videos
Jeunesse du MondeNeo-fascism and the ideology of desire: is Michel Clouscard still relevant?
23 May 2026Do Michel Clouscard's theses in Néo-fascisme et idéologie du désir still make it possible to understand libertarian liberalism, neofascism, and today's revolutionary subject?
Cycle 14The silences of the media uproar: the Atlanticist re-Nazification
21 Oct 2025Why, in the media uproar, is the history linking Atlanticist capitalism to Nazism and to the present danger of war passed over in silence?
Cycle 13On the anti-Sovietism of the Khmer Rouge-Greens
6 Feb 2025Why were the Khmer Rouge, communists, hostile to the Soviets, and what does their genocide reveal about the essence of evil?
Questions and answersHeidegger, or panzer-philosophy
21 May 2021Why is Heidegger "the most Nazi of the great philosophers," and what does Dominique Pagani reproach him for above all?
At the Tropiques bookshopCalves and Things: the preface
4 Oct 2020What does the dominant ecological discourse cover, and why must it be criticized from a Marxist standpoint?
At the Tropiques bookshopArendt and Heidegger: the destruction of thought
24 Sept 2020What relation unites Arendt's conception of Nazism and totalitarianism with Heidegger's conception of thought, and how has this relation served to exonerate Heidegger and Schmitt?
Cycle 7#7 Harnessed to confinitude
5 May 2020What does the ongoing crisis reveal, read through Marx's dialectic and through the ideology of Heidegger, Jünger and Nietzsche documented by Domenico Losurdo?
Interviews for L’Affranchi#4 Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire: on the thought of M. Clouscard
26 Sept 2014How does Michel Clouscard link praxis and psyche, and why does he see in May '68 and the ideology of desire a counter-revolution that prepares a neofascism?
On Michel ClouscardEverything is allowed but nothing is possible: Michel Clouscard (1)
29 Jan 2012What does Clouscard's formula "Everything is permitted but nothing is possible" cover, and how does it illuminate so-called consumer society, the Marshall Plan and May 68?