by Paul Ariès, Florence Leray
This man belongs to the cast of those who will go down in history during lifetime. He speaks, they say, from his guts, produces choleric fits in front of the cameras, gesticulates about like an eternal youngster. In reality today, the name Cohn-Bendit represents such a discrepancy between the figure and the sense that it became urgent to publish this oeuvre.
“Dany le Rouge” (Red Dany) has always been more liberal than libertarian. He is the best advocate of green capitalism, a man who is needed by the system in order to push through the false solutions to the crisis. Having adhered to the Greens from opportunism, his political path is increasingly approaching ever more the disinhibited Right. Cantor of gobalisation and darling of the media, he combines superficiality with “supercherie” (swindle, betrayal, guile) in favour of his huge narcissism.
This is a investigative biographie which leaves behind the abysses of (the) man in order to attack with precision the “way of thinking of DCB” and the political contradictions of this “court jester”. There is an ecology at stake which is not only intended to be a capitalist stimulation programme. •
Paul Ariès is political scientist, director of the political analysis journal Le Sarkophage, redactor of the monthly La Décroissance, associate at Politis. He is the author of about twenty books.
Florence Leray is philosophe, publisher and maker of documentaries.
Source: Paul Ariès, Florence Leray, Cohn-Bendit, l’imposture ISBN 978-235341-086-6
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