Situationist thinking defined the 1968 Paris Spring; a spontaneous uprising that nearly toppled the French government and threatened to erupt into a global insurrection against capitalism from within. Protesting alienation, inequality and society of the spectacle, slogans like “Boredom is counterrevolutionary” and “Run, comrade, the old world is behind you!” filled the mouths and songs of millions who at their core, were in open revolt to the demands of consumer society. Raoul Vaneigem was a member of the Situationist International from 1961 to 1970 and the author of more than thirty books and a key thinker in the movement. He was in the streets in 1968 and offers his thoughts to interviewer Siné Mensuel on then and now.
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