Paris Uprising May 1968

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.

jews

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?

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

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.

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

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.

The reforms were truly chloroform.

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.

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