Contenu du sommaire : « Pensée unique » et pensées critiques

Jean-Pierre Garnier, La "pensée unique" and Its Double Has a "pensée unique" (a single vision of the world) ever existed ? Or has it simply the ambition of replacing a critical perspective capable of imagining a world beyond capitalism ? By not situating their criticisms within an anticapitalist framework, those objecting to the "pensée unique" tend to contribute to the idea that there is no alternative to capitalism. It can even be said that such critiques strengthen the capitalist system by exposing inefficient policies whose rectification reinforce it.

Denis Collin, Keynesianism against Neoliberalism : A Real Alternative ? Current political and economic debates seem to be dominated by the opposition between the free-market ideas which now prevail and their keynesian or neo-keynesian critics. In many ways, however, such an opposition is false and deflects attentions from a more proper focus upon property relations and the nature and principles of political power.

Georges Labica, What Use is Identity ? The term identity has become inflated far beyond its importance in recent years and the phenomenon can be studied in itself. Regardless of the legitimacy of claims to particular identities, such affirmations cannot constitute an adequate response to the challenges presented by the currrent process of economic and cultural globalisation.

Rémy Herrera, The Unsupportable flexibility of Being : Citizenship and Precarity Economic theory is presently dominated by the neoclassical tradition. Its basic pretention, that the study of economic can be apolitical and objective while rejecting social and historical analysis, is a fiction. Examination of the most recent contributions to the reigning orthodoxy shows how the neoclassical formulations are arbitrary intellectual constructions.

Jean De Martelaere, Ideology and Historicity : On the Reiteration of Discourses about Order Instead of allowing greater intellectual freedom and diversity, the end of the cold war has resulted in increased ideological and social control of national populations, especially in Europe. But there is ample historical precedent for the emergence of these reactionary tendencies, as the work of Albert O. Hirschman demonstrates. At the heart of the ideology animating these tendencies is a certain vision of historical progress associated with the capitalist system of production.

Ariane Lantz, The "Pacifists" and War without War War, whether that of 1939 or that of 1914, does not make one think, but rather provokes a sense of shame about the culture of war and a sense of guilt about the errors of the past. Such reactions tend to obscure a political analysis of war in favor of the moral condemnation of it. consequently, the word "pacifists" becomes an insult since it evokes war and not the extirpation of evil.

Daniel Bachet, "The 'Tiertiary Sector" or the Return of the Third Way Promoters of the tiertiary sector wish to call into question an approach to economic questions founded exclusively on the tandem State and market. However, this approach proceeds from a vision of the world which dissociates the economic from the social without understanding the contradictory movement which gives primacy to the former over the latter.

Jean-Claude Delaunay, From Merchandise Product to Merchandise Enterprise The source of the ideology represented by the "pensée unique" is the capitalist enterprise, and has been since the beginnings of industrial capitalism. This enterprise is in a constant state of transformation. In its latest and present phase, economic ideology is characterized by the "pensée unique" and extends to different aspects of social existence.