Situationist International
Situationist International
Libertarian Marxist group who wrote extensively on culture and were highly influential on the events of May 1968 in France; members included Guy Debord, Raoul Vaneigem and René Riesel.
Situationist International
The SI was a libertarian socialist group founded in France. Famous for its writings on modern culture among other things, it played an important role in sparking the French mass strikes of 1968.
Situationist International (SI) - international, 1960s-70s
aka Situationiste Internationale
The SI was an international group of revolutionary socialists, founded in France by former members of the Lettrist International.
The Situationists fused Marxism with an analysis of the power of modern culture and the emptiness of everyday life under capitalism
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Marxism is Dead! Long Live Marxism - Mike Rooke
An examination of the limits of 2nd & 3rd International 'Orthodox Marxism' and the later theoretical contribution of the Situationist Guy Debord.
From; 'What Next' no. 30, 2005
Preliminaries on councils and councilist organization - René Riesel
A look at workers' councils and the historical contexts in which they were created. A useful analysis - which challenges some aspects of the standard anarchist analysis of the events in Spain during the 1936 Revolution.
The Revolution of Modern Art and the Modern Art of Revolution (Clark, Gray, Nicholson-Smith, Radcliffe & others, 1967)
A situationist-influenced critique of modern art by some UK radicals in the days of 1967 when, for many, revolution seemed to be getting close. Despite the occasional silly over-estimation of delinquency and shop-lifting, still a fine critique of its time of art and its limits.
