In the decor of the
spectacle, the eye meets only things and their prices.
Commute, work, commute,
sleep . . .
Meanwhile everyone wants to
breathe and nobody can
and many say, “We will breathe later.”
And most of them don’t die because they are already dead.
And most of them don’t die because they are already dead.
Boredom is
counterrevolutionary.
We don’t want a world
where the guarantee of not dying
of starvation brings the risk of dying of boredom.
of starvation brings the risk of dying of boredom.
We want to live.
Don’t beg for the right
to live — take it.
In a society that has
abolished every kind of adventure
the only adventure that remains is to abolish the society.
the only adventure that remains is to abolish the society.
The liberation of humanity is
all or nothing.
Those who make revolutions
half way only dig their own graves.
No replastering, the
structure is rotten.
Masochism today takes the
form of reformism.
Reform my ass.
The revolution is incredible
because it’s really happening.
I came, I saw, I was won
over.
Run, comrade, the old world
is behind you!
Quick!
If we only have enough
time . . .
In any case, no regrets!
Already ten days of
happiness.
At every moment
something is happening.
Live in the moment.
Comrades, if everyone did
like us . . .
We will ask nothing. We will
demand nothing. We will take, occupy.
Down with the state.
When the National
Assembly becomes a bourgeois theater,
all the bourgeois theaters should be turned into national assemblies.
[Written above the entrance of the occupied Odéon Theater]
all the bourgeois theaters should be turned into national assemblies.
[Written above the entrance of the occupied Odéon Theater]
Referendum: whether we vote
yes or no, it turns us into suckers.
It’s painful to submit
to our bosses;
it’s even more stupid to choose them.
Let’s not change bosses,
let’s change life.
Don’t liberate me —
I’ll take care of that.
I’m not a servant of the
people (much less of their
self-appointed leaders).
Let the people serve themselves.
Let the people serve themselves.
Abolish class society.
Nature created neither
servants nor masters.
I want neither to rule nor to be ruled.
We will have good masters as
soon as everyone is their own.
“In revolution there are
two types of people:
those who make it and those who profit from it.”
(Napoleon)
those who make it and those who profit from it.”
(Napoleon)
Warning: ambitious careerists
may now be disguised as “progressives.”
Don’t be taken in by the
politicos and their filthy demagogy.
We must rely on ourselves.
Socialism without freedom is a barracks.
Socialism without freedom is a barracks.
All power corrupts. Absolute
power corrupts absolutely.
We want structures that serve
people, not people serving structures.
The revolution doesn’t
belong to the committees, it’s yours.
Politics is in the streets.
Barricades close the streets
but open the way.
Our hope can come only from
the hopeless.
A proletarian is someone who
has no power over his life and knows it.
Never work.
People who work get bored
when they don’t work.
People who don’t work never get bored.
People who don’t work never get bored.
Workers of all countries,
enjoy!
Since 1936 I have fought for
wage increases.
My father before me fought for wage increases.
Now I have a TV, a fridge, a Volkswagen.
Yet my whole life has been a drag.
Don’t negotiate with the bosses. Abolish them.
My father before me fought for wage increases.
Now I have a TV, a fridge, a Volkswagen.
Yet my whole life has been a drag.
Don’t negotiate with the bosses. Abolish them.
The boss needs you, you
don’t need the boss.
By stopping our machines
together we will demonstrate their weakness.
Occupy the factories.
Power to the workers
councils.
(an enragé)
(an enragé)
Power to the enragés
councils.
(a worker)
(a worker)
Worker: You may be only 25
years old,
but your union dates from the last century.
Labor unions are whorehouses.
Comrades, let’s
lynch Séguy!
[Georges Séguy: head bureaucrat of the Communist Party-dominated labor union]
[Georges Séguy: head bureaucrat of the Communist Party-dominated labor union]
Please leave the Communist
Party as clean on leaving
it as you would like to find it on entering.
Stalinists, your children are
with us!
Man is neither
Rousseau’s noble savage nor
the Church’s or La Rochefoucauld’s depraved sinner.
He is violent when oppressed, gentle when free.
He is violent when oppressed, gentle when free.
Conflict is the origin of
everything.
(Heraclitus)
(Heraclitus)
If we have to resort to
force, don’t sit on the fence.
Be cruel.
Humanity won’t be happy
till the last capitalist is hung
with the guts of the last bureaucrat.
with the guts of the last bureaucrat.
When the last sociologist has
been hung with the guts of
the last bureaucrat, will we still have “problems”?
the last bureaucrat, will we still have “problems”?
The passion of destruction is
a creative joy.
(Bakunin)
(Bakunin)
A single nonrevolutionary
weekend is infinitely more
bloody than a month of total revolution.
The tears of philistines are
the nectar of the gods.
This concerns everyone.
We are all German Jews.
We refuse to be highrised,
diplomaed, licensed,
inventoried, registered, indoctrinated,
suburbanized, sermonized, beaten, telemanipulated, gassed, booked.
suburbanized, sermonized, beaten, telemanipulated, gassed, booked.
We are all
“undesirables.”
We must remain
“unadapted.”
The forest precedes man, the
desert follows him.
Under the paving stones, the
beach.
Concrete breeds apathy.
Coming soon to this location:
charming ruins.
Beautiful, maybe not, but O
how charming: life versus survival.
“My aim is to agitate
and disturb people.
I’m not selling bread, I’m selling yeast.”
(Unamuno)
(Unamuno)
Conservatism is a synonym for
rottenness and ugliness.
You are hollow.
You will end up dying of
comfort.
Hide yourself, object!
No to coat-and-tie
revolution.
A revolution that requires us
to sacrifice
ourselves for it is Papa’s revolution.
Revolution ceases to be the
moment it calls for self-sacrifice.
The prospect of finding
pleasure tomorrow will
never compensate for today’s boredom.
When people notice they are
bored, they stop being bored.
Happiness is a new idea.
Live without dead time.
Those who talk about
revolution and class struggle without referring
to everyday reality have a corpse in their mouth.
to everyday reality have a corpse in their mouth.
Culture is an inversion of
life.
Poetry is in the streets.
The most beautiful sculpture
is a paving stone thrown at a cop’s head.
Art is dead, don’t
consume its corpse.
Art is dead, let’s
liberate our everyday life.
Art is dead, Godard
can’t change that.
Godard: the supreme Swiss
Maoist jerk.
Permanent cultural vibration.
We want a wild and ephemeral
music.
We propose a fundamental regeneration:
concert strikes,
sound gatherings with collective investigation.
Abolish copyrights: sound structures belong to everyone.
We propose a fundamental regeneration:
concert strikes,
sound gatherings with collective investigation.
Abolish copyrights: sound structures belong to everyone.
Anarchy is me.
Revolution, I love you.
Down with the abstract, long
live the ephemeral.
(Marxist-Pessimist Youth)
(Marxist-Pessimist Youth)
Don’t consume Marx, live
him.
I’m a Groucho Marxist.
I take my desires for reality
because I believe
in the reality of my desires.
Desiring reality is great!
Realizing your desires is even better!
Practice wishful thinking.
I declare a permanent state
of happiness.
Be realistic, demand the
impossible.
Power to the imagination.
Those who lack imagination
cannot imagine what is lacking.
Imagination is not a gift, it
must be conquered.
(Breton)
(Breton)
Action must not be a
reaction, but a creation.
Action enables us to overcome
divisions and find solutions.
Exaggeration is the beginning
of invention.
The enemy of movement is
skepticism. Everything that has been realized
comes from dynamism, which comes from spontaneity.
comes from dynamism, which comes from spontaneity.
Here, we spontane.
“You must bear a chaos
inside you to give birth to a
dancing star.”
(Nietzsche)
(Nietzsche)
Chance must be systematically
explored.
Alcohol kills. Take LSD.
Unbutton your mind as often
as your fly.
“Every view of things
that is not strange is false.”
(Valéry)
(Valéry)
Life is elsewhere.
Forget everything you’ve
been taught. Start by dreaming.
Form dream committees.
Revolution is the
active passage from dream to reality.
Dare! This word contains all
the politics of the present moment.
(Saint-Just)
(Saint-Just)
Arise, ye wretched of the
university.
Students are jerks.
The student’s
susceptibility to recruitment as a militant for
any cause is a sufficient demonstration of his real impotence.
(enragé women)
any cause is a sufficient demonstration of his real impotence.
(enragé women)
Professors, you make us grow
old.
Terminate the university.
Rape your Alma Mater.
What if we burned the
Sorbonne?
Professors, you are as senile
as your culture, your modernism
is nothing but the modernization of the police.
is nothing but the modernization of the police.
We refuse the role assigned
to us: we will not be trained as police dogs.
We don’t want to be the
watchdogs or servants of capitalism.
Exams = servility, social
promotion, hierarchical society.
When examined, answer with
questions.
Insolence is the new
revolutionary weapon.
Every teacher is taught,
everyone taught teaches.
The Old Mole of history seems
to be splendidly
undermining the Sorbonne.
(telegram from Marx, 13 May 1968)
(telegram from Marx, 13 May 1968)
Thought that stagnates rots.
To call in question the
society you “live” in, you must first
be capable of calling yourself in question.
be capable of calling yourself in question.
Take revolution seriously,
but don’t take yourself seriously.
The walls have ears. Your
ears have walls.
Making revolution also means
breaking our internal chains.
A cop sleeps inside each one
of us. We must kill him.
Drive the cop out of your
head.
Religion is the ultimate con.
Neither God nor master.
If God existed it would be
necessary to abolish him.
Can you believe that some
people are still Christians?
Down with the toad of
Nazareth.
How can you think freely in
the shadow of a chapel?
We want a place to piss, not
a place to pray.
I suspect God of being a
leftist intellectual.
The bourgeoisie has no other
pleasure than to degrade all pleasures.
Going through the motions
kills the emotions.
Struggle against the
emotional fixations that paralyze our potentials.
(Committee of Women on the Path of Liberation)
(Committee of Women on the Path of Liberation)
Constraints imposed on
pleasure incite the
pleasure of living without constraints.
The more I make love, the
more I want to make revolution.
The more I make revolution, the more I want to make love.
The more I make revolution, the more I want to make love.
SEX: It’s okay, says
Mao, as long as you don’t do it too often.
Comrades, 5 hours of sleep a
day is indispensable:
we need you for the revolution.
we need you for the revolution.
Embrace your love without
dropping your guard.
I love you!!! Oh, say it with
paving stones!!!
I’m coming in the paving
stones.
Total orgasm.
Comrades, people are making
love in the Poli Sci
classrooms, not only in the fields.
Revolutionary women are more
beautiful.
Zelda, I love you! Down with
work!
The young make love, the old
make obscene gestures.
Make love, not war.
Whoever speaks of love
destroys love.
Down with consumer society.
The more you consume, the
less you live.
Commodities are the opium of
the people.
Burn commodities.
You can’t buy happiness.
Steal it.
See Nanterre and live. Die in
Naples with Club Med.
Are you a consumer or a
participant?
To be free in 1968 means to
participate.
I participate.
You participate.
He participates.
We participate.
They profit.
You participate.
He participates.
We participate.
They profit.
The golden age was the age
when gold didn’t reign.
“The cause of all wars,
riots and injustices is the existence of property.”
(St. Augustine)
(St. Augustine)
Happiness is hanging your
landlord.
Millionaires of the world
unite. The wind is turning.
The economy is wounded —
I hope it dies!
How sad to love money.
You too can steal.
“Amnesty: An act in
which the rulers
pardon the injustices they have committed.”
(Ambrose Bierce)
[The definition in Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary is actually: “Amnesty: The state’s
magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.”]
(Ambrose Bierce)
[The definition in Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary is actually: “Amnesty: The state’s
magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.”]
Abolish alienation.
Obedience begins with
consciousness;
consciousness begins with disobedience.
consciousness begins with disobedience.
First, disobey; then write on
the walls.
(Law of 10 May 1968)
(Law of 10 May 1968)
I don’t like to write on
walls.
Write everywhere.
Before writing, learn to
think.
I don’t know how to
write but I would like to say
beautiful things and I don’t know how.
I don’t have time to
write!!!
I have something to say but I
don’t know what.
Freedom is the right to
silence.
Long live communication, down
with telecommunication.
You, my comrade, you whom I
was unaware of amid the tumult,
you who are throttled, afraid, suffocated — come, talk to us.
you who are throttled, afraid, suffocated — come, talk to us.
Talk to your neighbors.
Yell.
Create.
Look in front of you!!!
Help with cleanup, there are
no maids here.
Revolution is an INITIATIVE.
Speechmaking is
counterrevolutionary.
Comrades, stop applauding,
the spectacle is everywhere.
Don’t get caught up in
the spectacle of opposition. Oppose the spectacle.
Down with spectacle-commodity
society.
Down with journalists and
those who cater to them.
Only the truth is
revolutionary.
No forbidding allowed.
Freedom is the crime that
contains all crimes. It is our ultimate weapon.
The freedom of others extends
mine infinitely.
No freedom for the enemies of
freedom.
Free our comrades.
Open the gates of the
asylums, prisons and other faculties.
Open the windows of your
heart.
To hell with boundaries.
You can no longer sleep
quietly once you’ve suddenly opened your eyes.
The future will only contain
what we pu
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