Mao

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani consistently distinguishes two figures of Mao. He keeps his respect and admiration for the Mao of the Long March, who lifted China out of poverty and led the communist forces against the Japanese, to the point that "nothing must be said" against him12. He sharply separates him from the Mao of the Cultural Revolution, whom he judges deplorable and anti-Soviet, adding that Mao never forgave de-Stalinization3. He reads the Cultural Revolution as a power manoeuvre: after the failure of the Great Leap Forward, Mao loses his grip on the party and regains it by relying on the Red Guards45. He often returns to the image of the old companions of the Long March threatened and denounced by young Red Guards, who were applauded at the time by Western Maoists and those of the Latin Quarter6. He also maintains that the Khmer Rouge do not stem from the communism of the Long March7.

1. 1Guerre, néo-fascisme : le libéralisme-libertaire3 Mar 2023 · 1:07:05
2. 2De l'anti-soviétisme des khmers rouges-vert6 Feb 2025 · 59:54
3. 3D. Pagani / Réponse de M. Clouscard à C. Morilhat • Seconde Partie10 Sept 2019 · 2:01:40
4. 4De l'anti-soviétisme des khmers rouges-vert6 Feb 2025 · 36:50
5. 5NÉOFASCISME ET IDÉOLOGIE DU DÉSIR : Michel CLOUSCARD toujours d'actualité ? - avec Dominique PAGANI23 May 2026 · 7:44
6. 6Naissance et carnage - Le massacre des Innocents22 Dec 2023 · 1:48:59
7. 7La mondanité chez Clouscard ou "L'idéologie dominante"26 Apr 2023 · 41:18

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