Tag Archives: 1968

Alain Badiou interviewed about the Gilets Jaunes, Macron and future of the French left.

Posted on April 1, 2019 by

“Things are happening, anarchically, as is always the case with beginnings. Experiments must be linked to a careful, prolonged and systematic examination of Marxism, but also to the revolutionary attempts of the twentieth century as a whole. What really happened in Petrograd and Shanghai? What is the balance sheet? What formulation allows us to avoid the failures of these undertakings?”

Posted in founding, melancholy, Nota Bene, revolution, the Left, tragic politics, violence

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Bini Adamczak: “The Double Heritage of Communism to Come – 1917-1968-2018”

Posted on March 28, 2019 by

“The Communism of 1917 stood under the sign of equality and unity, that of 1968 under the sign of freedom and difference. A possible communism of 2018 would have to take solidarity and association to the centre stage.”

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Laurence Cox: ‘The revolutionary challenge of “the long 1968”’

Posted on January 9, 2019 by

“The struggles of 1968 remade the landscape of social movements and popular resistance for decades to come. What do these struggles have to tell us today?”

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Max Elbaum: “Revolution in the Air: Lessons from the 1960s”

Posted on December 3, 2018 by

‘Fortunately, there are more and more young people today who, like the generation of 1968, are flocking toward a revolutionary vision and looking for illuminating theory and effective strategy and organization. The task of my generation is to get in behind the new radicals, support them, offer what we’ve learned from our experience in the spirit of “take whatever is useful and leave the rest.”  And let’s see if together we can move history along a little further this time around.’

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Mehmet Döşemeci & Jennifer Thomson: “Decolonizing society: The legacy of 1968”

Posted on October 7, 2018 by

“The broad-based anti-imperialist consensus animating 1968 New Left politics allowed activists to identify their shared fight against a common enemy — one whose appearance varied, but whose operations were the same. It allowed them to connect the oppression of different national and sub-national communities, and then to move further and struggle against the interconnection of domestic policing with international warmaking. It allowed them to escape their individual isolation by talking and acting collectively. As importantly, it enabled them to draw connections across national and identitarian grammars of discontent.”

Posted in disobedience, Nota Bene, power, revolt, the Left

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