Paris Uprising May 1968

[trifulquita15]

nobody notice that these filthy leftists made Pol Pot when Saloth was a student in Paris

[iLOVENATURE2011]

this video is very educational...taught me the history of paris as well as their culture....

[ParisianColour]

May 1968 = #Occupyeverywhere

[funktrane]

8:30 Robert Hughes?

[4500jas]

Once again the Unions, instruments of the bourgeoisie quell the workers revolt and what would have been the international revolution. Reforms are Chloroform! Revolution is locomotive!

[elephantstone222]

thanks for this - what documentaries did you get the clips from?

[JRF1961]

Fucking Frogs, How soon they forget their own crimes an Algeria and Vietnam!!!!

[GhibliOriginals]

@JRF1961 i don't think usa can teach france on crimes, and the contrary is true as well: we both share blood on our hands (Orange Agent, Tortures in Algeria= same shit)

[GodOfTheInternets]

Time for the revival of anarchy!

[folladordeprostis]

I heard that those maoist and marxist from 1968 riots today are right winger,and the frech communist party don't even reach 5 % in elections ahhaa

[fremsley001]

Egypt 2011 shows how it should be done. France 68 was a self-indulgent talkfest run by spoilt kids.

[relax4007]

Old farts will never get over the '60s will they?

[MrFlashBazbo]

Read Lipstick Traces. Please....I am reading it now...it is brilliant

[sebidelpi]

it should have been the new french revolution that would have change the world for the second time...but capitalism is to powerfulll than every other social system in the past

[Rimber6]

Thank you for this video and the nice quotes on the rights ^^.

Very inspiring, it's about time for another revolution, it's that or war I'm afraid.

[batalion666]

jews

[rolpho]

Is my worth in this society so entangled with oppression that if I choose something else, no matter its substance, that I shall be blugeoned?

[dougjnesbitt]

The Situationists were not at all a driving force. Do some research, please.

[LovexandxRage]

dougjnesbitt

Depending on what you mean by driving force, I feel that the Situationists didn't start this by any means, but they were a large influence. The Poverty of Student Life had a huge impact on the university and Veneigem's quotes from The Revolution of Everyday life where found painted on walls across Paris.

Granted, conditions in general in France and the world was very influential, but I think the SI inspired it.

[OttOmOlOtOv]

Well, at least 90% of the graffiti was directly from Situationists texts.

[OttOmOlOtOv]

I would say everything good and important about this historic moment came from the SI. Yes, the uprising failed, but the fact that it did was mostly do to the inability of the mass to see what was happening and what was possible. Had they been more aware of the SI critique and solutions, maybe we would all be living in a very different world.

[streetfightspdx]

@dougjnesbitt

You're the one that needs to do the research

[piemiret]

@dougjnesbitt

If you so some research yourself you will see how the SI was very influential.

[NEDM1991]

The reforms were truly chloroform.

[fomastephanovitch]

The seeds of the collapse of 2009 was sewn in May 1968.

[sideshowbobcat]

There are many concepts that the crude, insulting and unoriginal Wraith23 fails to grasp.

1. Monopoly capital in it's most advanced stage; imperialism contradicts "free" competition between capitalist enterprises and nation states leading to sporadic economic crisis

[Wraith23]

May 68 a month that will live in infamy!

[sideshowbobcat]

2. The concept of a state - having absolute control over working people is only compatible with Facism; the preferred or even default political system that capitalism falls seeks to implement when social democracy fails. Under the communism of Eastern Europe, despite it's corruption and inefficiencies it relied on a limited form of workers control; albeit one that was very bureaucratic

[Wraith23]

"You don't know your arse from your elbow. Go back to bed. "

Next time don't try to debate a libertarian, we are too smart for marxist morons like you.

[sideshowbobcat]

3. the Wraith also fails to understand the historical and political context of 1968, when the Maoists were influential precisely because of the failures of the French Communist Party. However they were not the only tendency in the protest movement and certainly not the only socialists. Their popularity was derived by their tenacity and militancy; the horrors of the cultural revolution in China had not been fully realised.

[Wraith23]

The inspiration for '68 would have been the likes of Malatesta, Kropotkin, Bakunin, not authoritarians like Mao."

Yet, like typical marxist hypocrites, socialists were cheering for "chairman Mao".... pathetic

"There's many monopolies in capitalism."

There cant be monopolies in the free market because no good or service is exclusive of one business, unlike the absolute control of the socialist state over the economy and production.

[BronzeSultan]

Leftist are not the problem, it the gaps that capitalism leaves between the poor, middle class, and the elites who sometimes control a lot of a certain sector of society like the economy in recent times,

[sideshowbobcat]

1968 proved that in the advanced capitalist countries the working class were not content with the consumerist society of late monopoly capitalism... which is now in serious crisis. Viva lá revolucion!

[Wraith23]

1968 proved that stupid people does stupid things.

There are no monopolies in the free market capitalism. Only monopolies in the state.

And the stupid marxist social theory of class struggle is a joke.

Liberty rules!

[yaknbo]

D ...anger

[yaknbo]

I agree with Pasolini, your DARLING homo commie director. The kids on the Left Bank were spoiled brats who were putting the cops, humbly paid civil servants, in anger by their violence. Did you know that Pasolini was of that opinion? No, obviously not. CAPITALISM FOREVER. LONG LIVE SARKOZY.

[billyysands]

what is this idiotic fetish the french have with communism they are spoiled marxism never produced anything for anyone but a handfull of party elites

the working classes were enslaved and impoverished

these kids and major portions of european society are spoiled children

marxism are the opite of the intellectual class

[Alexandra041908]

"Bullets for your youth, money for your bank!"

[polygamous1]

i can't believe it that you tube readers gave the thumps down for a comment saying fight the NWO is there so many elitist/zionist/neocons in here? cause NO one else in his right mind can possibly want to be the chipped subhuman in the NWO anyway sarkozy what i heard on the net maybe you tube don't remember he is Not French but half greek half jew n a high ramking mossad agent? which i find that a little hard to believe but who knows he is very pro NWO

[DANxTHExRED]

That's because no one takes nutjob conspiracies seriously.

May '68 was an anarchist uprising in response to capitalism. There is no conspiracy at work here, just sheer economics against the bearers of labour. Leave the NWO shite for your lizard videos, you fucking fruitloop!

[Wraith23]

Mao Tse Tung was an inspirational leader for these socialist assholes..... thats pretty much says it all.

[DANxTHExRED]

What a fucking knobhead this person is. The inspiration for '68 would have been the likes of Malatesta, Kropotkin, Bakunin, not authoritarians like Mao. Anarchism by virtue is opposed to hierarchy, you dope.

There's many monopolies in capitalism. Wealth, power and violence. None of them can be outright contested by the mass working class.

Social theory? It's economic theory, the diametric opposite, you fucking moron.

You don't know your arse from your elbow. Go back to bed.

[Wraith23]

"Wealth, power and violence"

The only monopoly ever created that holds those 3 were the totalitarian socialist states.

"None of them can be outright contested by the mass working class. "

You keep with that marxist nonsense, there cant be coercion with voluntary association

"Social theory? It's economic theory, the diametric opposite"

Have you even read Marx?

Marx wasn't an economist, he was a philosopher, thats it.

His absurd conclusions were derived from sociological observations.

[DANxTHExRED]

All states currently on the planet, whether they claim to be socialist or not, hold those monopolies, with their military and police force. Imagine that, even in democratic capitalism.

Not sure what you're about on, I don't believe there should be coercion with voluntary association. Regardless, this has fuck all to do with the fact that people are powerless in the here and now.

Marxist class is determined by relationship to capital. There is nothing sociological about it at all.

[DANxTHExRED]

Listen wee lad, you're a gobshite who doesn't know half the words you use, nor understand the concepts you try to grasp.

The only thing you do have plenty of, is straw. How would you have any arguments without it?

[kaosstar]

It was the French government who gave these socialists a voice. When forced to choose between dealing with commies and dealing with anarchists, authoritarians will choose the commies. What I'm getting at is that you can't attribute these events entirely to socialists. Anarchists claim May, 1968 as well, and it should be noted that the unions and socialist parties only grudgingly marched with anarchists.

[ajsqueakywheel]

OttOmOlOtOv, Thanks so much for this great post. Do you have additional information about the original source of this video?

[tmprogram]

keep on fighting the nwo!

[Gusty85]

Reformist demostrates, revolutionaries take arms...

[willowakatrevor]

De Gaulle was re-elected however he resigned the following year, the social consequences of the riots are undeniable

[trumpettelly]

I was born in 1968

the '68 guns will never die...

[batalion666]

next jewish quasirebellion

[supcool76]

The 68 riots did not have a sense of unity. merly exstremist leftist who wanted an utopian society brought chaos onto the streets of paris in fact De Gualle who the riotors hated was elected with a majority vote...

[vaginyabelle]

here is what we are talking about.

[diadorim1234]

in tsechoslovakia they fought for their lives

[MarxBakuninMe]

The unions could easily have brought down the government. Bloody Soviet influence fucked it up.

[veronicadredd22]

revolution devours her own children

[specticality]

Long live Guy Debord and the Situationalists.

[VWC1904]

whats the song at 38 sec

[Vice81]

Well Marxism and agency don't go very well together for one thing. 68 was an expression of immediacy and the power of spontaneity something that dialectic ridden marxism could never understand. Beyond that Foucault was always more incised by Nietzsche anyway.

[criticaljunkie]

people have explained to me that the events of may 1968 inspired michel foucault to part with marxism. it seems to me that the strikes and protests were fairly successful- so i'm wondering if anyone can elaborate on why these events would have caused his shift

[Egorend]

they didn't end capitalism

[OttOmOlOtOv]

I don't think too many people involved in the events thought the outcome was a success, accept for the labor unions and the official communist party. What seemed to be happening was the beginning of a true revolution, but what happened was simply a few more reforms. Lots of radicals felt betrayed by the unions and the communist party for conceding to the government in exchange for some minor pay raises and such.

[plutoohno]

i think it caused him to reconsider the parameters of disciplinary power - as the 68 revolts were against both soviet and capitalist regimes. i think also it is what inspired his tepid sense of what is to be done, so to speak, as the entire point was some sort of autonomous and direct composition of the social body, foucault wouldnt want to administer any official prescriptions... there is an interview he did with some students/workers around this period that covers it better.

[ottocle]

Could i just ask when this documentary was broadcast and on which channel?

[OttOmOlOtOv]

It was never broadcast. I put together the video from 2 sources, both extras from the DVD of Bertolucci's The Dreamers.

I certainly wish this kind of information was broadcast on mainstream channels though.

[uglyslacker]

demos, dany le rouge, solidarität, genralstreik und unter dem pflaster der strand...

[Socialist1917]

1968-2008

Too many years have gone by!

We need a new revolution!

Together we can change the world!

[nixxifocal]

Thanks for posting this comrade.

[Spainiswonderful]

Greetings from Spain and thank you so much OttOmOlOtOv for this rare document that brings me back so beautiful memories from the time we wanted to change the World. When is the next revolution? C´mon, be quick guys! I am getting old and need to live another one before I die, hehehe :)

My favorite graffiti: "If God existed it would be necessary to abolish him."

Love & peace,

Francisco

[AcePilot101]

Marxist propaganda..lots of that in today's America, see Hillary Clinton.

[didz83]

Hilary Clinton is no more of a marxist than i'm a half elephant half duckbilled platipus!

[Maldororisdead]

Shit, I want that statement on a t-shirt (original, I know). I've actually seen people wearing shirts with hammers and sickles superimposed over Hillary's face. As a Marxist I'm pretty offended.

[Maldororisdead]

By the way, I was responding to "Hilary Clinton is no more of a marxist than i'm a half elephant half duckbilled platipus!." My comment doesn't seem to be appearing in the right place...

[luka55555]

Im marxist and I think its kinda funny.

[wootiness]

where did you obtain the video from?

[eyeswideshut75]

it's one of the extras on he dvd of Bertolucci's film "The Dreamers"

[bohemiastudios]

To tmurph12345 Tax the rich feed the poor, bring it on home, "Stop the War"!Now!

[tmurph12345]

we dont need this to be the sixties! lets start our own damn revolution

[pizzaslut90210]

yes, please go ahead. Ohh, and when the rest of us who are not 'class-conscious' please do not club us over the head and tell us what we want.

[Octavio99999]

You ommitted the extremely important events of several major corporations being taken over and run by their workers. They were doing fine too. But the communists flipped out that this would make them lose their party power and pushed the workers to accept improved working conditions and salaries. The communist party didn't really want the people to control the economy democratically along with the capitalists.

[RudyRules]

They were doing fine? Bullshit.

[BrezhnevIsMyCoPilot]

The PCF eventually chose to oppose the protestors because they were considered to be anarchist-leaning rather than Marxist-Leninist. The PCF was probably also upset that they couldn't control that "rabble", convinced that they should be the true vanguard.

I disagree with the PCF's policy, but don't approve of distortion.

[anarchoandpeace]

Amazing.

[wildbillcleveland]

D'accord

[TrystanCJ]

I wish it was the sixties.

[daveibukun]

are you kidding me??? do you want to be sent to south east asia to fight the viet cong.

[noeldouglas]

the situationists were only a couple of people, despite the romanticisation of them they had little bearing on the struggles in 68 (as good as they're writings are) this is confirmed by Henri Lefebvre and others, and also it forgets that the general strike involved 12 million workers, it was that that shook the system!

[SocialForces]

you should not be suprised by the use of force by the state; towards anything that the state feels threatened by.

[conductor71]

In Stuart Christie's autobiography he states that the Situationists had no real influence on the events in Paris, according to his friends Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Jean Pierre Duteuil who were two of the major players in the events. Thats probably why they are not mentioned - they were influential AFTER the events but not during, it seems.

[Vice81]

I'm not suprised at that type of retoric coming from the leftists losers you mentioned. No leftists ever had near the originality of the situs.

[siadbarrbar]

theres a sleeping cop inside all of us, he must be killed.

[Wrayer]

Fascinating... thanks for this, I wouldn't have known about this otherwise.

[scumbauggio]

interesting, but no mention of Situationist agitation, which many see as having greatly influenced May '68.

[OttOmOlOtOv]

Yes, I mentioned that in the description. However, I have yet to find any other video dealing with the May 1968 events (at least not in a short conventional manner like this). The reason behind the ommision of Situationist influence may be that the two short documentaries used to put this video together were mainly focused on the cinema, media and filmmakers of the time.

[OttOmOlOtOv]

There was no love lost between the Situationists and most contemporary filmmakers, such as Godard. So it is not too suprising to see a bias toward the cinema/media influence on the events rather than on the more overt and important influence of the Situationist International. I recommend anyone interested in May 1968 (or radical action and revolution in general) to read the texts mentioned in the video description (most of the stuff can be read online).

[scumbauggio]

thank you - I neglected to read the description.