Mai 68

René Gallissot, Was May 1968 a Social Movement ? Beyond the Working-Class Movement Up until 1968 little distinction was made between working-class and social movements. The dominant conception was that of social class. In fact, the working-class movement represents a rather unique type of movement produced by the segregation and discrimination directed towards the working classes and the proletariat. It is because of the processes of social and national integration that the force of the working-class movement declined. A social movement springs from a minority condition within a particular society, as the women's movement reveals today. 1968 in France involved more than just student demonstrations ; it was an anti-authoritarian, a-nationalistic and, in part, counter-cultural movement. The phenomena of social mobilizations must be situated in a long historical chain of movements that may be variously characterized as communitarian, egalitarian, populist, national, and concerned with minority and civil rights

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