Class struggle

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani takes from Marx the idea that class struggle is the motor of history. He draws on Clouscard, who describes its metamorphoses from the Liberation to the present day, while the dominant consensus declares it gone1. In his view, everything is done so that it is not spoken of: a dominant language conceals it, and he calls it "the unconscious of the Freudian unconscious"2. He often comes back to the forms this disguise takes. The powerful present class struggle as conflicts between ethnic groups or between regional and national identities3. Identity wars thus hide the war that bloodies humanity4. In 2020 he already fears that race struggle may obscure it5. He adds that a population must pass through many fantasy-driven stages before it can put its sufferings in these terms6. He also finds it in intimate relations, such as those between the miserly father and the prodigal son7. He finds it as well where it is not expected: in Mallarmé, an imagined fistfight with a drunken worker stages a "class struggle on the lawn", from which point the text turns around89.

1. 1Clouscard : Les métamorphoses de la lutte des classes2 Sept 2024 · 12:30
2. 2[ENTRETIEN] DOMINIQUE PAGANI - Michel Clouscard et la trahison de mai 687 Feb 2025 · 14:52
3. 3#8 Philosopher sous la menace27 Jan 2022 · 1:29:00
4. 4La mondanité chez Clouscard : Aragon et la positivité du négatif29 Jun 2023 · 1:36:45
5. 5#10 • Retour aux logiques du sujet11 Jun 2020 · 1:17:29
6. 6#8 Philosopher sous la menace27 Jan 2022 · 1:27:34
7. 7La mondanité chez Clouscard : Aragon et la positivité du négatif29 Jun 2023 · 59:20
8. 8Mallarmé ou la lutte des classes sur le gazon - Lectures sur le vif31 Jan 2023 · 1:56
9. 9Mallarmé ou la lutte des classes sur le gazon - Lectures sur le vif31 Jan 2023 · 8:20

Summary produced automatically from 9 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.