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Paris Uprising May 1968

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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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Uploaded: October 22, 2006 at 2:43 pm
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trumpettelly (Saturday 29th of November 2008 03:39:20 PM)
I was born in 1968 the '68 guns will never die...
batalion666 (Saturday 29th of November 2008 09:08:29 AM)
next jewish quasirebellion
supcool76 (Monday 24th of November 2008 12:19:20 AM)
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 (Saturday 1st of November 2008 07:15:50 PM)
here is what we are talking about.
diadorim1234 (Sunday 12th of October 2008 05:08:06 PM)
in tsechoslovakia they fought for their lives
plutoohno (Thursday 2nd of October 2008 11:45:22 PM)
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.
MarxBakuninMe (Thursday 2nd of October 2008 11:02:59 PM)
The unions could easily have brought down the government. Bloody Soviet influence fucked it up.
veronicadredd22 (Monday 22nd of September 2008 02:03:37 PM)
revolution devours her own children
specticality (Saturday 30th of August 2008 07:56:18 PM)
Long live Guy Debord and the Situationalists.
VWC1904 (Sunday 13th of July 2008 04:31:19 AM)
whats the song at 38 sec