Georges Gastaud

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani refers to Georges Gastaud as the founder and leader of the PRCF, a Marxist who claims Marx's legacy and whose defence of the French language against anglicisms he approves of1. He notes Gastaud's expression "exterminism" of capitalism. He agrees with him when he protests against those who set Engels against Marx2. In his view, Gastaud's work Lumières communes, whose title pays tribute to both the Enlightenment and the Commune, is a major philosophical contribution, and he recommends it: in it Gastaud makes the dialectics of nature the ontological basis of Marxism3. Pagani grants him the existence of a dialectic independent of man4, but he maintains a disagreement: against the ontology of being that Gastaud calls for, he sets an ontology of becoming5, and he has asked him what the concept of nature adds to that of matter6. In 2020, he considers this disagreement mainly semantic. On ecologism, he finds Gastaud's article intelligent but criticises him for not analysing the symbolic order7.

1. 1Debussy27 Mar 2020 · 1:11:09
2. 2#9 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...17 Dec 2020 · 18:52
3. 3L'idéologie naturaliste / Réponses aux questions - Dominique Pagani25 Jul 2025 · 33:21
4. 4L'idéologie naturaliste / Réponses aux questions - Dominique Pagani25 Jul 2025 · 40:32
5. 5#8 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...10 Dec 2020 · 59:55
6. 6Clouscard par vous-même - Réponse à vos questions28 Feb 2024 · 1:37:38
7. 7L’écologisme est l’opium du people : Préface du livre de Dominique Mazuet "Des Veaux et des choses"4 Oct 2020 · 12:32

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