Preface vii
Part One The meaning of May 1
Part Two The Hidden Powder Keg 37
University in Turmoil 41
Society in Flux 69
"A Class for Itself"? 91
The Dynamics of Youth, or Angry Young Men 106
Part Three The Explosion 113
The Student Uprising (May 3–May 13) 115
The Workers Take Over (May 14–May 27) 152
How Not to Seize Power (May 27– May 31) 186
From General Strike to General Election 206
PART FOUR The Fallout 221
No Peasants on Their Backs 223
Anarchy and Dual Power 232
The "New Proletarians"? 243
Cultural Revolution 260
The Would–Be Soviets 269
The Negative Hero 276
PART FIVE In Search of the Future 297
The End of Marginalism 299
Without a Model 322
The Unwithering State 349
Tests for a Strategy 365
The International Dimension 389
Age of Conflict or Age of Resolution? 404
Abbreviations 411
Index 415
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Daniel Singer (September 26, 1926 December 2, 2000) was a socialist writer and journalist. He was best known for his articles for The Nation in the United States and for The Economist in Britain, serving for decades as a European correspondent for each magazine. Gore Vidal described Singer as "one of the best, and certainly the sanest, interpreters of things European for American readers", with a "Balzacian eye for human detail."
"If Marx had been living in Paris during May 1968, he might have
written this book."New Republic
"An intimate and intricate account of the events in Paris by one
who knew almost every cobblestone in the Latin Quarter."
Michael Foot
"Daniel Singer is the left's most brilliant arsonist. He sets
ablaze whole forests of dessicated cliches about the end of
history' and the triumph of the market' in order to light the way
forward for the next generation of radical thinkers and activists."
-- Mike Davis
"Daniel Singer is the premier progressive interpreter of European
affairs. His courageous vision and sophisticated analysis gives us
hope even in this ice age of fashionable neoliberalism and
conservatism." -- Cornel West
"I can think of no journalist more versed, more hip to what is
happening in Europe today than Daniel Singer. -- Studs Terkel
"If Marx had been living in Paris during May 1968, he might have
written this book."—New Republic
"An intimate and intricate account of the events in Paris by one
who knew almost every cobblestone in the Latin Quarter."
—Michael Foot
"Daniel Singer is the left's most brilliant arsonist. He sets
ablaze whole forests of dessicated cliches about the end of
history' and the triumph of the market' in order to light the way
forward for the next generation of radical thinkers and activists."
-- Mike Davis
"Daniel Singer is the premier progressive interpreter of European
affairs. His courageous vision and sophisticated analysis gives us
hope even in this ice age of fashionable neoliberalism and
conservatism." -- Cornel West
"I can think of no journalist more versed, more hip to what is
happening in Europe today than Daniel Singer. -- Studs Terkel
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