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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani often comes back to the idea that he would have been "the first one shot" under Stalin. He uses it to show that he is not spreading Soviet propaganda1. He holds a twofold position: there is a Stalin he defends and another against whom he defends the victim2. On the one hand, he respects the head of the army that crushed Nazism and liberated Europe. He explains the German-Soviet pact by the refusal of France and England and by Munich, since they wanted to see Hitler and Stalin destroy each other. On the other hand, he deplores the purges: no one killed as many communists as Stalin did. According to Pagani, Stalin is not Marxian when he attacks individuals, since a class is liquidated by changing property relations3. On the philosophical level, he reproaches him for condemning the negation of the negation, a regression from Lenin that Althusser praised4. Finally, he rejects lumping him together with Hitler under the notion of totalitarianism, and sums up: "neither devil nor good Lord"5.

1. 1#1 Présentation ; l'U.E ; Clouscard; Rousseau.20 Sept 2014 · 14:30
2. 2Popper (Karl)3 Dec 2019 · 6:51
3. 3Marx Plage 2/21 Feb 2016 · 48:49
4. 4Hommage à Domenico Losurdo2 Jul 2018 · 9:18
5. 5NÉOFASCISME ET IDÉOLOGIE DU DÉSIR : Michel CLOUSCARD toujours d'actualité ? - avec Dominique PAGANI23 May 2026 · 1:06:43

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