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Cold War

10 videos, newest first.

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani treats the Cold War as the moment when the "never again" of 1945 changes target: the "red plague" is hunted rather than the "brown plague"12. Following Clouscard, he reads the Marshall Plan as a material concession made to the working classes to prevent a communist victory. This concession goes hand in hand with an ideological war that leads to May 68 and to the Atlanticist counter-offensive of the 1970s, aimed at eliminating Gaullism and communism34. He draws on concealed historical sequences: the recruitment of former Nazis by the American services from 1946, Heidegger becoming NATO's favourite philosopher, the CIA's funding of FO, the World Anti-Communist League, and Western support for the Khmer Rouge against the background of Sino-Soviet tension567. He challenges Arendt's and Popper's notion of totalitarianism, which he links to Cold War ideology8. In his recent sessions, he dates the beginning of neo-fascism to the Cold War: a fascism that denies being fascist in the name of the free world9.

  1. 1#4 Neofascisme et idéologie du désir; sur la pensée de M.Clouscard.26 Sept 2014
  2. 2#7 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude5 May 2020
  3. 3Tout est permis mais rien n'est possible - Michel Clouscard - 129 Jan 2012
  4. 4« DOIT-ON SAUVER LE SOLDAT LORDON ? » - Postface de la réédition par Delga du livre Néo-fascisme et idéologie du désir par de Michel Clouscard1 Aug 2017
  5. 5Heidegger ou la Panzer Philosophie • Q&A Philosophique • Dominique Pagani21 May 2021
  6. 6De l'anti-soviétisme des khmers rouges-vert6 Feb 2025
  7. 7Les silences du vacarme médiatique - nouveau cycle : la renazification atlantiste.21 Oct 2025
  8. 8Arendt et Heidegger : la destruction de la pensée24 Sept 2020
  9. 9NÉOFASCISME ET IDÉOLOGIE DU DÉSIR : Michel CLOUSCARD toujours d'actualité ? - avec Dominique PAGANI23 May 2026

Introduction produced automatically from the 10 sessions on this theme, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the sessions.

The 10 videos

Jeunesse du Monde

NEO-FASCISM AND THE IDEOLOGY OF DESIRE: Is Michel CLOUSCARD still relevant? - with Dominique PAGANI

23 May 2026

Do Michel Clouscard's theses in Néo-fascisme et idéologie du désir still make it possible to understand libertarian liberalism, neofascism, and today's revolutionary subject?

Season 14

The silences of the media uproar - new cycle: the Atlanticist re-Nazification.

21 Oct 2025

Why, in the media uproar, is the history linking Atlanticist capitalism to Nazism and to the present danger of war passed over in silence?

Season 13

On the anti-Sovietism of the Khmer Rouge-Greens

6 Feb 2025

Why were the Khmer Rouge, communists, hostile to the Soviets, and what does their genocide reveal about the essence of evil?

Questions and answers

Heidegger, or Panzer Philosophy • Philosophical Q&A • Dominique Pagani

21 May 2021

Why is Heidegger "the most Nazi of the great philosophers," and what does Dominique Pagani reproach him for above all?

At the Tropiques bookshop

Calves and Things, preface by Dominique Pagani

4 Oct 2020

What does the dominant ecological discourse cover, and why must it be criticized from a Marxist standpoint?

At the Tropiques bookshop

Arendt and Heidegger: the destruction of thought

24 Sept 2020

What relation unites Arendt's conception of Nazism and totalitarianism with Heidegger's conception of thought, and how has this relation served to exonerate Heidegger and Schmitt?

Season 7

#7 • Harnessed to confinitude

5 May 2020

What does the ongoing crisis reveal, read through Marx's dialectic and through the ideology of Heidegger, Jünger and Nietzsche documented by Domenico Losurdo?

Other videos

Should we save Private Lordon? Dominique Pagani read by G.Protche

1 Aug 2017

Why does Frédéric Lordon, whose political battles deserve to be defended, read Michel Clouscard against the grain, and what does this reading reveal?

Interviews for L’Affranchi

#4 Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire; on the thought of M.Clouscard.

26 Sept 2014

How does Michel Clouscard link praxis and psyche, and why does he see in May '68 and the ideology of desire a counter-revolution that prepares a neofascism?

On Michel Clouscard

Everything is allowed but nothing is possible - Michel Clouscard - 1

29 Jan 2012

What does Clouscard's formula "Everything is permitted but nothing is possible" cover, and how does it illuminate so-called consumer society, the Marshall Plan and May 68?

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