Racism

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani argues that racism is not primarily a matter of colour or race, but of social relations. He often returns to Lothrop Stoddard, whom he discovered through Domenico Losurdo: the inventor of the "underman", taken up by Rosenberg, ends up placing white socialists among the inferior races, which in his view shows that the criterion is political12. With Adotevi, he treats "nègre" as a concept rather than a colour: the Slavs, "the nègres of whiteness", Rimbaud as a "true nègre". The session arrives at the thesis that slavery creates racism, not the reverse3. He links the return of racism to unemployment and contrasts the emirs welcomed at the George V with other Arabs4. He therefore rejects the words "racialised" and "decolonial", which put ontological entities in the place of class5. Later, he connects this critique to that of identity conceived as substance: evil consists in seeing substance where there is relation, and the "pure Aryan" is the example of it6.

1. 1U comme Übermensch4 Jan 2015
2. 2Les silences du vacarme médiatique - nouveau cycle : la renazification atlantiste.21 Oct 2025
3. 3Adotevi : Négritude et négrologues (1)17 Jun 2017
4. 4L'île du Peuple : le débat23 Jun 2015
5. 5«Rouges-bruns», «décolonial» : Faut-il utiliser la langue dominante ? • Q&A Philosophique • Pagani31 Mar 2021
6. 6L'identité imaginaire15 May 2025

Introduction produced automatically from the 7 sessions on this theme, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the sessions.