Summary
Dominique Pagani approaches imperialism as a philosopher, through the Socratic question "what do you call…?". He treats colonialism as a species of the genus imperialism and holds that the United States is the only case of fully accomplished colonization. In the Sahel, he names the IMF, the World Bank and the European Union as the dominant element1. From 2024 on, he consistently replaces the word "West", which he considers a concealing concept, with "Atlanticist imperialism". He sees Ukraine, Gaza, the Sahel and the South China Sea as aspects of a single war, one that is preparing a war against China. He links it to France's alignment with England since Waterloo and to France's return to NATO's integrated command2. He calls this imperialism a "global fascism", distinct from the local fascism of the far right, and draws on Clouscard, who as early as 1976 foresaw the merging of the two3. Finally, he connects Atlanticist imperialism to Nazism through historical sequences that have been hidden from view: Munich, Lothrop Stoddard, the recruitment of former Nazis by American intelligence services, and Western support for the Khmer Rouge45.
- 1Sahelian Africa and imperialism: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger23 Mar 2024
- 2Too late?14 Aug 2024
- 3After the vote: entering a zone of turbulence11 Jul 2024
- 4On the anti-Sovietism of the Khmer Rouge-Greens6 Feb 2025
- 5The silences of the media uproar: the Atlanticist re-Nazification21 Oct 2025
Introduction produced automatically from the 9 sessions on this theme, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the sessions.
The 9 videos
Cycle 14The return of fascism
4 Feb 2026What is rightly called fascism, and how can we recognize its return today?
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 14State and state apparatus: the conflict between public and private
29 Aug 2025Why must the State, understood as general will, be distinguished from the State apparatus that oppresses?
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?
Cycle 12Too late?
14 Aug 2024Is it already too late to prevent the war waged by Atlanticist imperialism from becoming a world conflict?
Cycle 12After the vote: entering a zone of turbulence
11 Jul 2024The day after the legislative elections, what fascism are we talking about, and how can it be identified through a concrete analysis of our era?
Café marxisteSahelian Africa and imperialism: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger
23 Mar 2024What is today the dominant element exploiting the Sahelian Africa, and why must it be called imperialism rather than colonialism?
Cycle 11A springtime of the peoples?
18 Mar 2023Does poetic speech proceed from the immediate intuition of genius or from a rigor that proceeds by mediations?
Cycle 5.1#5.2 The philosopher's Odyssey: revolutionary thought
21 Nov 2018Why does Hegel, the philosopher of mediation, occupy a central place in revolutionary thought from Rousseau to Lenin, and what relation does mediation have with death?