de Gaulle

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani presents de Gaulle as a man of the right who never claimed to be on the left. He says he voted against him all his life, while praising his foreign policy: the Phnom Penh speech, Algeria, the withdrawal from NATO's integrated command, the empty chair in Brussels1. He associates Gaullism and communism as the two mass forces that came out of the Resistance and the only opponents of Atlanticism in France2. In his view, Atlanticism and the Vichyite right sought to remove him, from the OAS assassination attempt at Petit-Clamart to May 68. With Clouscard, he makes de Gaulle the "stern father" whom liberals and libertarians joined forces to overthrow3. He draws from this a phrase that recurs often: the leftists of 68, who called themselves to the left of the Communist Party, were in fact to the right of de Gaulle4. He also stresses the ambivalence of anti-Gaullism, which people can adopt for opposite reasons, for instance out of nostalgia for French Algeria or out of Pétainism. Finally, he says he prefers "a quarter of de Gaulle" to today's entire left5.

1. 1#10 UKRAINE : Du problème des "Bords" au déchaînement de la guerre24 Feb 2022 · 1:30:11
2. 2D. Pagani / Réponse de M. Clouscard à C. Morilhat • Seconde Partie10 Sept 2019 · 2:23:08
3. 3Naissance et carnage - Le massacre des Innocents22 Dec 2023 · 1:39:26
4. 4Pourquoi Clouscard est-il indispensable ? (ENG SUBTITLES) Et sa traduction en anglais aussi !3 Jan 2023 · 8:29
5. 5Pour une apocalypse "fraiche et joyeuse" ?24 Jun 2024 · 28:28

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