Pierre Rabhi

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani refers to Pierre Rabhi as the figure of degrowth and of "happy sobriety", calling him its "first champion"; in "Les Veaux et les choses", he notes that Rabhi appears on the book's jacket1. He treats him as a target of criticism. As early as 2017, he places him among the doctrines that flout the humanist dream2. In a Marxist café on work, he makes clear that the sobriety Rabhi advocates is not what Marx says3. He also links the apostles of degrowth to the MEDEF, the French employers' federation: in his view, both converge on the bare minimum needed to live4. In 2021, in a session on Plato's Gorgias and on what he calls "post-modern eco-petty-Nazism", he associates Rabhi with the idea that the state of nature is innocent5. Finally, he remarks with irony that a line of Virgil seems to have been written by Rabhi's disciples6.

1. 1Les Veaux et les choses (3) : La dictature du bobotariat6 Oct 2020 · 36:39
2. 2#3.4 D'Ulysse à Dédale1 Aug 2017 · 1:10:18
3. 3Café Marxiste - Travail et droit au travail20 May 2018 · 52:23
4. 4Musicosophie 2. De Lévi-Strauss à Nerval à propos de la musique3 Dec 2020 · 35:55
5. 510#7 L'éco-nazillonisme "post-moderne" - Le Gorgias de Platon23 Dec 2021 · 1:06:51
6. 6#16 • Retour aux logiques du sujet30 Jul 2020 · 30:54

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