Far right

Summary

Dominique Pagani approaches the far right through Michel Clouscard, who foresaw as early as the 1970s a neo-fascism arising from libertarian liberalism. By replacing the social with the societal, and class struggle with competing identities, May '68 leads, in his view, the former communist voter towards Le Pen1. The National Front must therefore, he says, be fought without alienating its voters. He distinguishes two far rights. The first is a planetary Atlanticist fascism, judged from the standpoint of its victims, which returns "under the banner of freedom", as Thomas Mann predicted. The others are local identitarian fascisms, which it makes use of. Bardella's rallying to NATO confirms, in his eyes, their collusion2. He rejects the notions of "red-brown" and of totalitarianism, which equate communism with Nazism34. He defines fascism by hostility to the French Revolution, which he reads in Achim von Arnim, by hatred of the State, by anticommunism and by economic crisis4. Finally, he argues that discrediting progress and reason serves the far right, which thrives on the collapse of the left5.

1. 1#4 Neofascisme et idéologie du désir; sur la pensée de M.Clouscard.26 Sept 2014
2. 2Pour une apocalypse "fraiche et joyeuse" ?24 Jun 2024
3. 3«Rouges-bruns», «décolonial» : Faut-il utiliser la langue dominante ? • Q&A Philosophique • Pagani31 Mar 2021
4. 4Le retour du fascisme4 Feb 2026
5. 5La mondanité chez Clouscard - Le choc des mondes ?9 Jul 2023

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