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Temps Critiques: “The envy of the French Revolution of the Yellow Vests”

Posted on February 18, 2019 by

“Spontaneously, the reference to the French Revolution constituted for the Yellow Vests the only historical reference, because only it carries the collective memory of a social and political upheaval with which they can identify.”

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Enzo Traverso: “Understanding the Gilets Jaunes”

Posted on February 15, 2019 by

“A self-organized movement deprived of any tradition and historical memory learns from its experience and its own mistakes; it does not accept lessons from outside and has its own times of apprenticeship. Unfortunately, I am not sure they have much time.”

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Samuel Hayat: “The Gilets Jaunes and the Democratic Question”

Posted on February 13, 2019 by

“A new emancipatory politics, which remains to be invented, should be based on making the ensemble of relations of domination visible, without hierarchy and by remaining open and responsive to new antagonisms which will inevitably come to light. As it is, the Gilets Jaunes movement, anchored in a citizenist conception of politics, does not seem to be taking this path toward the visibilization of these antagonisms, even as it opens up new democratic possibilities. A renewal of an emancipatory politics must therefore think both with and against this movement, for democracy and against oligarchy, but also for the expression of conflict and against consensus – whether it be technocratic or citizenist.”

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Jacques Rancière on the Gilets Jaunes Protests

Posted on February 12, 2019 by

“Significantly, these ‘apolitical’ people adopted the form of action of the outraged youth of the ‘squares’ movements, a form that the rebellious students had themselves borrowed from striking workers: occupation.”

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Étienne Chouard: “The Constituent Yellow Vests Appeal to All Humanity”

Posted on February 11, 2019 by

“From my point of view, Yellow Vests are doing what the whole society should do. They are the ones who start because they are the exploited, they are the ones who earn the least, who have the most difficulty in living, and the others who earn just a little more, who know well that soon they will be in the same precariousness, in my opinion, if all goes well logically, the non-Yellow Vests will soon join the Yellow Vests because they know that they are also threatened with downgrading and that these extreme difficulties in life throw Yellow Vests out of their homes and bring them outside.”

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lundi matin: “The gilets jaunes: Creative violence against State brutality”

Posted on February 5, 2019 by

“The brutality of finance, of capitalism, pushes bodies into the streets, to hunger, to suicide, to oblivion, to boredom. Violence, in this sense, is only a process of emancipation of constrained bodies against the economic relations which surround them.”

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Jacques Fradin: “Gilets Jaunes: Fractures and lines of escape”

Posted on January 27, 2019 by

“And if the insurrection is to continue, it must fracture, divide and separate, create new autonomies both in the fissures of society and the Movement.“

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Pierre Dardot: “With the ‘gilets jaunes’: against representation, for democracy”

Posted on January 27, 2019 by

“Urgency demands that we act in the movement as it is and with the gilets jaunes,taking them as they are and not as we would like them to be; resolutely supporting everything that goes in the direction of self-organization and democracy. Let’s repeat, it’s not over yet. The present is new, the future is open and our action matters, here and now. Act V.”

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CrimethInc.: “Between the Reaction and the Referendum”

Posted on January 10, 2019 by

“Several questions remain. How can we make sure that the ways we participate in the yellow vest movement and others like it won’t be simply perceived as an “apolitical” expression of anger, giving nationalists a platform to take credit for our efforts? When we act to create a crisis, how do we prevent far right parties from capitalizing on it by promising a return to normal? How do we confront legalist and reactionary ideas within the movement? How should we prepare for the next round, in which we will either face a stronger repressive and authoritarian state or a massive nationalist and reactionary wave? But also—how can we reinforce our connections with everyone else in the streets and traffic circles?”

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Julius Gavroche: “The gilets jaunes: Towards a permanent insurrection”

Posted on January 10, 2019 by

“At the very heart of anarchism is the radical and uncompromising celebration of autonomy. And what is autonomy if not the permanent possibility of refusal and insurrection, of destruction and/or creation.”

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