Paris Uprising May 1968

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Video Description: A look at the events and some of the causes of the uprising in France in the Spring of 1968.
Unfortuately, there is no mention of one of the driving forces of the uprising both before and during the revolt - the Situationist International.
For more information check out the writings of the Situationists themselves.
The Beginning of an Era
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/12.era1.htm
May 1968 Documents
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/May68docs.htm
The Joy of Revolution
http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/joyrev3.htm
The Society of the Spectacle
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord/
The Revolution of Everyday Life
http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/pub_contents/5
Enrages and Situationists in the Occupation Movement, France, May '68
May 1968 Graffiti
Boredom is counterrevolutionary.
In a society that has abolished every kind of adventure the only adventure that remains is to abolish the society.
Those who make revolutions halfway only dig their own graves.
No replastering, the structure is rotten.
We will ask nothing. We will demand nothing. We will take, occupy.
Down with the state.
It's painful to submit to our bosses; it's even more stupid to choose them.
Abolish class society.
We want neither to rule nor to be ruled.
All power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely
Politics is in the streets.
Barricades close the streets but open the way.
People who work get bored when they don't work.
People who don't work never get bored.
The boss needs you, you don't need the boss.
Humanity won't be happy till the last capitalist is hung with the guts of the last bureaucrat.
A single nonrevolutionary weekend is infinitely more bloody than a month of total revolution.
We refuse to be highrised, diplomaed, licensed, inventoried, registered, indoctrinated,
suburbanized, sermonized, beaten, telemanipulated, gassed, booked.
Coming soon to this location: charming ruins.
Our aim is to agitate and disturb people. We're not selling bread, We're selling yeast.
You will end up dying of comfort.
Poetry is in the streets.
The most beautiful sculpture is a paving stone thrown at a cop's head.
Revolution, I love you.
I'm a Groucho Marxist.
Desiring reality is great! Realizing your desires is even better!
Be realistic, demand the impossible.
Those who lack imagination cannot imagine what is lacking.
Arise, ye wretched of the university.
Professors, you are as senile as your culture, your modernism is nothing but the modernization of the police.
Neither God nor master.
If God existed it would be necessary to abolish him.
How can you think freely in the shadow of a chapel?
The more we make love, the more we want to make revolution. The more we make revolution, the more we want to make love.
Revolutionary women are more beautiful.
Make love, not war.
Down with consumer society.
The more you consume, the less you live.
Commodities are the opium of the people.
You can't buy happiness. Steal it.
The economy is wounded - Lets hope it dies!
I don't have time to write!!!
Don't get caught up in the spectacle of opposition. Oppose the spectacle.
No forbidding allowed.
The freedom of others extends mine infinitely.

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Greetings from ... ( 7 months ago by 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

Thanks for posting ... ( 7 months ago by nixxifocal)

Thanks for posting this comrade.

Array ( 7 months ago by Socialist1917)

1968-2008
Too many years have gone by!
We need a new revolution!
Together we can change the world!

Shit, I want that ... ( 7 months ago by 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.

By the way, I was ... ( 7 months ago by 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...

demos, dany le ... ( 7 months ago by uglyslacker)

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

I'm not suprised at ... ( 6 months ago by 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.

Could i just ask ... ( 6 months ago by ottocle)

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

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It was never ... ( 6 months ago by 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.

Im marxist and I ... ( 6 months ago by luka55555)

Im marxist and I think its kinda funny.

people have ... ( 6 months ago by 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

they didn't end ... ( 6 months ago by Egorend)

they didn't end capitalism

I don't think too ... ( 5 months ago by 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.

Well Marxism and ... ( 5 months ago by 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.

whats the song at ... ( 4 months ago by VWC1904)

whats the song at 38 sec

Long live Guy ... ( 3 months ago by specticality)

Long live Guy Debord and the Situationalists.

revolution devours ... ( 2 months ago by veronicadredd22)

revolution devours her own children

The unions could ... ( 2 months ago by MarxBakuninMe)

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

i think it caused ... ( 2 months ago by 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.

in tsechoslovakia ... ( 1 month ago by diadorim1234)

in tsechoslovakia they fought for their lives

here is what we are ... ( 1 month ago by vaginyabelle)

here is what we are talking about.

The 68 riots did ... ( 1 week ago by 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...

I was born in 1968 ... ( 3 days ago by trumpettelly)

I was born in 1968
the '68 guns will never die...

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