May 68
22 videos, newest first.
Summary
Dominique Pagani approaches May 68 through Michel Clouscard, whose formula "everything is permitted but nothing is possible" sums up, in his view, the contradiction of the event: capitalism is permissive towards consumers and remains repressive towards producers. He traces it back to the Marshall Plan and the crisis of overproduction, making 68 the "Bastille Day" of the new middle strata1. He distinguishes two Mays of 68: the great workers' strike is covered over by a societal May of the intellectual petty bourgeoisie. He sees in it a liberal-libertarian counter-revolution, which brings about the decline of Gaullism and communism2. He places its master thinkers (Foucault, Lévi-Strauss, Althusser) within an anti-humanist offensive dated to 19663. He disputes that sexual freedom was an invention of 684. In the more recent sessions, he dwells on the gauchistes, a coalition of libertarians, Trotskyists and Maoists, on their rallying to Mitterrand, and on the path that, according to Clouscard, leads from Cohn-Bendit to Le Pen5.
- 1Tout est permis mais rien n'est possible - Michel Clouscard - 129 Jan 2012
- 2#4 Neofascisme et idéologie du désir; sur la pensée de M.Clouscard.26 Sept 2014
- 3Dominique Pagani ▷II Michel Foucault2 May 2019
- 4Attention aux contresens !! Clouscard et l'idéologie du désir, en hommage au Précepteur14 Jan 2023
- 5NÉOFASCISME ET IDÉOLOGIE DU DÉSIR : Michel CLOUSCARD toujours d'actualité ? - avec Dominique PAGANI23 May 2026
Introduction produced automatically from the 22 sessions on this theme, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the sessions.
The 22 videos
Jeunesse du MondeNEO-FASCISM AND THE IDEOLOGY OF DESIRE: Is Michel CLOUSCARD still relevant? - with Dominique PAGANI
23 May 2026Do 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?
Le Précepteur[INTERVIEW] DOMINIQUE PAGANI - Michel Clouscard and the betrayal of May 68
7 Feb 2025What is libertarian liberalism according to Michel Clouscard, and why does May 68 mark its birth?
Season 12Birth and carnage - The Massacre of the Innocents
22 Dec 2023What is dialectic, if it hinges on the internal contradiction of a subject between opposed and mutually necessary moments?
Season 11War, neo-fascism: libertarian liberalism
3 Mar 2023What should be understood by liberal-libertarianism, and how does the confusion between the State and the State apparatus prepare the return of fascism and war?
Season 11Beware of misreadings!! Clouscard and the ideology of desire, in homage to Le Précepteur
14 Jan 2023Does Clouscard put desire itself on trial, or the ideology of desire?
On Michel ClouscardWhy is Clouscard indispensable? (ENG SUBTITLES) And his translation into English too!
3 Jan 2023Why is Michel Clouscard's work indispensable, and why must it be translated into English?
Questions and answersLeft-washing: Are the woke the most asleep?
17 Nov 2021Why does the societal left that calls itself "woke" play into the hands of the right, and how can a language common to the human tribe be recovered?
On Michel ClouscardEVERYTHING IS ALLOWED, NOTHING IS POSSIBLE! Michel Clouscard, May 68 and the capitalism of seduction
14 Jul 2021How does Michel Clouscard analyze the capitalism of seduction born of the Marshall Plan and revealed by May 68, summed up in the formula "everything is permitted, but nothing is possible"?
On Michel ClouscardEVERYTHING'S ALLOWED, BUT NOTHING IS POSSIBLE! Michel Clouscard, May 68, French Theory & Capitalism
14 Jul 2021How does Michel Clouscard analyze the capitalism of seduction born of the Marshall Plan and May 68, summed up in the formula "everything's allowed, but nothing is possible"?
At the Tropiques bookshopCalves and Things (2): Ecologism, the highest stage of capitalism?
5 Oct 2020Why is ecologism a class ideology of capitalism, and what does the reference to Foucault's Les Mots et les choses in the title of the book Les Veaux et les choses mean?
Play ▷II PauseDominique Pagani ▷II Michel Foucault
2 May 2019What is the value of Michel Foucault's project, in his 1966 interview, of an ethnology of our own knowledge that announces the end of philosophy and the death of man?
Other videosShould we save Private Lordon? Dominique Pagani read by G.Protche
1 Aug 2017Why does Frédéric Lordon, whose political battles deserve to be defended, read Michel Clouscard against the grain, and what does this reading reveal?
On Michel ClouscardWith Clouscard
2 Aug 2016What does Michel Clouscard's life tell us about his thought, and why does this long-ignored thought impose itself today?
A Philosophical AlphabetW for Wolmar
6 Jan 2015Who is Wolmar in Julie, or the New Heloise, and thereby who is Julie?
A Philosophical AlphabetL for Liberty
26 Dec 2014What is it to be free, and how does freedom differ from libertarian liberalism?
A Philosophical AlphabetK for Karl
25 Dec 2014Should we believe in the return of Marx, and under what conditions does this return not betray him?
A Philosophical AlphabetC for Consumption
17 Dec 2014Are we really in a consumer society, and do we consume too much?
Interviews for L’Affranchi#4 Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire; on the thought of M.Clouscard.
26 Sept 2014How 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 ClouscardRadio Galère - Michel Clouscard - 2
7 Jul 2012How does Michel Clouscard analyze the passage, since May 68, to a capitalism that exploits in production and liberates in consumption?
On Michel ClouscardRadio Galère - Michel Clouscard - 1
6 Jul 2012What does Michel Clouscard's thought contribute to understanding the capitalism that emerged from May 68?
On Michel ClouscardEverything is allowed but nothing is possible - Michel Clouscard - 2
29 Jan 2012Why does Clouscard criticize "libertarian liberalism," and what becomes of this critique when applied to the state, the societal, and music?
On Michel ClouscardEverything is allowed but nothing is possible - Michel Clouscard - 1
29 Jan 2012What 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?