Michel Clouscard  

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Michel Clouscard (August 6, 1928 – February 21, 2009) was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist.

Philosophical work

According to Clouscard, the "capitalism of seduction" with its libertarian liberal face arises from the very evolution of the capitalist mode of production. It testifies to a qualitative jump of the accumulated quantities which, at a certain moment, reach a libertarian structure of society.

With its libertarian face, liberalism achieves its own self-realization, until the inevitable catastrophe. Clouscard speaks then about neofascism.

Drawing up the inventory of fixtures of the liberal counter-revolution's consequences, Clouscard produced a philosophical work to think and propose the basis of a new social contract and to enable a progressivist re-foundation.

Quotations

• “Marx exclusively devoted himself to the study of the concentration of possession: capital, because it is the principle of political economy. We will propose the study of the drift of accumulation like the principle of phenomenological knowledge for studying the change of the bourgeoisie of free enterprise into the bourgeoisie of services and functions of liberal society. Thus we will reveal an enormous unvoiced comment, that of the genealogy of this liberal society.” -- Critique of Libertarian Liberalism, Paris, Delga, p. 141

• “Neofascism will be the ultimate expression of libertarian social liberalism, of the unit which starts in May 68. Its specificity holds in this formula: All is allowed, but nothing is possible. The permissiveness of abundance, growth, new models of consumption, leaves the place to interdiction of the crisis, the shortage, the absolute impoverishment. These two historical components amalgamate in the head, in the spirit, thus creating the subjective conditions of the neofascism. From Cohn-Bendit (libertarian leftist) to Le Pen (French extreme nationalist), the loop is buckled: here comes the time of frustrated revanchists.” --Interview in "L'Evadé", n°9, French 141

• “The State was the superstructural authority of capitalist repression. This is why Marx denounces it. But today, with globalisation, the inversion is total. Whereas the state-nation could be the means of oppression of a class by another, it becomes the means of resisting globalisation. It is a dialectical process." Critique of Libertarian Liberalism, Paris, Delga, p. 141

Œuvres

• L'Être et le Code, Éditions Mouton, 1972 ; réédition L'Harmattan, 2004, Template:ISBN.
• Néo-fascisme et idéologie du désir, 1973 ; réédition : Le Castor Astral, 1999 ; réédition Delga 2008, Template:ISBN.
• Le Frivole et le Sérieux, Albin Michel, 1978 ; réédition Delga, 2010 Template:ISBN
• Le Capitalisme de la séduction - Critique de la social-démocratie, Éditions sociales 1981, Réédition Delga 2006, Template:ISBN.
• La Bête sauvage, Métamorphose de la société capitaliste et stratégie, Éditions sociales, 1983.
• Les Dégâts de la pratique libérale ou les métamorphoses de la société française, Nouvelles Éditions du Pavillon, 1987.
• Traité de l'amour fou. Genèse de l'Occident, Scandéditions-Éditions sociales, 1993, Template:ISBN.
• Les Métamorphoses de la lutte des classes, Le Temps des Cerises, 1996, Template:ISBN.
• Refondation progressiste face à la contre-révolution libérale, Éditions L'Harmattan, 2003, Template:ISBN.
• Critique du libéralisme libertaire : Généalogie de la contre-révolution,1986, Réédition 2006, Delga,Template:ISBN.
• La production de l'« individu », Delga, 2011, Template:ISBN.
• Les chemins de la praxis, fondements ontologiques du marxisme, Paris Delga, 2015, Template:ISBN

See also

• Criticism of libertarianism