What actually might have happened in Paris 1968?

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so the Situationists made a lot of graffiti and then blamed a buncha students - FRENCH students even - for not realising this was their cue to overthrow all of capitalist society ever, but outside of Guy Debord's head what were the actual possibilities of the riots? ie. what might actually have been accomplished had anyone managed to take real control after the occupation of the Sorbonne?

thom west (thom w), Sunday, 5 October 2003 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

a friend of mine who was in the Paris 68 riots described them thusly:

we started at one end of the street
and ran like hell to keep from being
beaten to death
and called it a riot.

Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 5 October 2003 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

say more!

thom west (thom w), Sunday, 5 October 2003 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)


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