In May 1968, the Situationist-inspired Paris riots set off a chain reaction of refusal against consumer capitalism.
First students, then workers, then professors, nurses, doctors, bus drivers and a piecemeal league of artists and anarchists took to the streets.
For a few heady weeks a tantalizing question hung in the air: What if the whole world turned into Paris? Could this be the beginning of the first global revolution? But the moment passed. Order was restored and “normal” life resumed.
…. now the embers of insurgency are beginning to smolder again.