Concept
May 68
Overview
May 1968 civil unrest in France
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All the while the bourgeoisie was clamoring louder and louder for a “strong Government,” and was finding it less and less pardonable to leave France “without an administration,” in proportion as a general commercial crisis seemed to be under way and making recruits for Socialism in the cities, as did the ruinously low price of grain in the rural districts. Trade became daily duller; the unemployed hands increased…
Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
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Six or seven years ago a political ebb-tide everywhere followed upon the revolutionary flood-tide. In Russia the counter-revolution triumphed and began a period of decay for the Russian proletariat both in politics and in the strength of their own organizations. In Austria the thread of achievements started by the working class broke off, social insurance legislation rotted in the government offices, nationalist…
Leon Trotsky, The Bolsheviki and World Peace
Close in meaning to May 68; the term itself is not named.
In Prussia, the bourgeoisie had been already involved in actual struggles with the Government; a rupture had been file result of the "United Diet"; a bourgeois revolution was impending, and that revolution might have been, in its first outbreak, quite as unanimous as that of Vienna, had it not been for the Paris Revolution of February. That event precipitated everything, while at the same time it was carried out…
Friedrich Engels, Revolution and Counter-Revolution
Close in meaning to May 68; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed May 68
- Roger Scruton
- Gilles Deleuze
- Intellectual
- Maurice Blanchot
- Cornelius Castoriadis
- Jacques Derrida
- Louis Althusser
- Edgar Morin
- Nicos Poulantzas
- André Gorz
- François Châtelet
Related ideas
- Anarchism
- Karl Marx
- Environmentalism
- Marxism
- Wilhelm Reich
- Jean Baudrillard
- Revolution
- World War II
- General strike
- Class struggle
- Michel Foucault
- France
- Paris Commune
- University of Paris
- Counterculture of the 1960s
- Feminism in France
Place in the tradition
Part of Maoism.