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Was there something queer about May 68?: The FHAR and Guy Hocquenghem
Workers of the world, masturbate! Front Homosexuel d’Action Revolutionnaire slogan We should put into practice the truth that there is no revolutionary subject—there is no subject at all. There are only historical drives that ruffle this or that part of our … Continue reading
The long and winding May of 1968 (4): April 4 – The assassination of Martin Luther King
The african/black american struggle against slavery and racism far predates the rebellions of 1968. Yet the 1960s marked an intensification in this struggle, comparable to few other moments in recent history. We will not pretend to analyse this struggle in … Continue reading
The long and winding May of 1968 (3): The italian autonomist movement
Autonomy is the body without organs of politics, anti-hierarchical, anti-dialectical, anti-representative. It is not only a political project, it is a project for existence. Individuals are never autonomous: they depend on external recognition. The autonomous body is not exclusive or … Continue reading
The long and winding May of 1968 (2): The student rebellion in Mexico
Our May 68 takes us to Mexico …
The long and winding May of 1968 (1): The Prague spring
May 1968 was not a franco-french, hexagonal affair. It was a global event. One would speak of it very differently if it had not resonated with, not only the occupied factories decked with red flags, but also with the Tet … Continue reading
The Situationists and May 1968
We share an essay by Miguel Amorós critically analysing the situationist reading of and role in May 68 (from libcom.org), followed by a series of Situationist texts from the events of May 68 … A brief review of the role played … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, france, May 68, Miguel Amorós, revolution, Situationists
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May 68: A Situationist reading
People strolled, dreamed, learned how to live. … For the first time youth really existed. Not the social category invented for the needs of the commodity economy by sociologists and economists, but the only real youth, of life lived without … Continue reading
I love Paris in the springtime: Tomás Ibáñez and the anarchy of May 68
VI. To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize “how it really was.” It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger. For historical materialism it is a question of holding … Continue reading
For Moishe Postone
In all revolutions up till now the mode of activity remained unchanged and it was only a question of a different distribution of this activity, a new distribution of labour to other persons, whilst the communist revolution is directed against … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-semitism, capitalism, Georg Lukács, marxism, Moishe Postone
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The long and winding May of 1968 (5): Japanese Anarchism 1960s
To share, a brief account of the anarchist movement in the 1960s of japan, by Michael Schmidt, followed by the third chapter of John Crump’s essay, The Anarchist Movement in Japan, 1906–1996.