May ‘68. Debate.
Students make comparisons: poor suburbs.
The university is unable to affect society.
Looking for a radical change in society.
Protesters are not touched (they are rich, white,
and French: they are not Algerians).
A European movement against capitalism.
Bourgeois dictatorship: Vive le socialisme!
An anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movement.
All the leftists united: Trotskyists, Maoists, Situationists,
Anarchists.
The government does not employ full military force.
May 13, 1968: Workers respond massively.
Oblique confrontation.
Students reject expertise and hierarchy.
Everything is put into question.
A new civilization.
A movement of the intelligentsia.
No Robespierre, no Trotsky. Just a happening.
An open-ended paralysis.
Putting revolution into question.
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