1968

And there were more of them after Chirac took over, what are you implying?

middle class students throwing rocks at working class police officers in the name of socialism.

It was also the death rattle of Western Civ.

>middle class students throwing rocks at working class police officers in the name of socialism.

whew, lad

Bof.

French revolution itself is a parody.

>Workers had occupied roughly fifty factories by 16 May, and 200,000 were on strike by 17 May. That figure snowballed to two million workers on strike the following day and then ten million, or roughly two-thirds of the French workforce, on strike the following week.

Of what would it be a parody?

It started with student protests, and it was students who occupied Paris. The workers' strike followed the students, and eventually stopped when it became very obvious that they had absolutely nothing in common.

Of a reform.

I'm starting to suspect you don't know what words mean.

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Students would go work in factories to pretend to be be blue collar, it was litterally like a working class summer camp for them. The workers who got to know them despised them and realised they had nothing in common. Student ended up giving up on hard work because first they couldn't handle it, and second because they had opportunities to make shitloads of money for a fraction of the hassle, thaks to daddy and mommy.

People nowadays still believe in this shit, that a wind of freedom blew across the country and stuff. They might somewhat right, though, it must've been fun, for those who could afford to play revolution.

I firmly believe that 1968 was the real "neo-liberal" revolution.
What students demanded back then was more job flexibility and more economic freedom.

It's almost unbelievable the amount of stupid bullsuot in this thread. How can all of you people talk out your asses like this? You shameful bastards deserve nothing but contempt.

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cultural revolution which definitely destroyed traditionalism and old french mindset and replaced it with consumerism, sexual liberation and american way of life

What are you even trying to imply with this post?

Of Ancient Rome

It was liberal and conservative governments which opened up the European workplace to cheaper foreign workers from which the majority of ethnic minorities in Western-Europe present day originate from

De Gaulle et Marchais, partez svp.

Whose fault is that? The Communists and Fascists who killed half of Europe and forced those governments to look outside of their own citizenry for labor. If it weren't for utopianism, none of this would have happened, Europe would still be Europe.

Yes, it's all somehow the fault of the communists fault, just look at all the black people in eastern europe

What does that have to do with my point about Western Europe? East Germany had programs like the West German gastarbeiter program. One of the reasons Western Europe suffered a labor shortage was the effects of Soviet de-Nazification and the large segment of the central European population that was sent to POW or labor camps in the USSR. And, of course, I mentioned the Nazis for all the obvious reasons: they started WWII, which killed so many people. Eastern European labor did not enjoy the freedom of circulation that Western European labor did. The USSR tried to make up for its losses of labor in terms of prisoners taken, as it simply annexed everything between Moscow and Berlin at the end of WWII.
You can deny that Communism denies laborers some of their freedom of circulation, but you're simply wrong to do so, as is evidenced by forced labor camps that existed thoughout the USSR and which exist in North Korea to this day. This is not an endorsement of liberal or fascist labor practices, mind you, I'm just pointing out that Communists are in fact involved via the USSR.

>hall of europe
France gained 2 millions inhabitants between 1935 and 1955. And 2 millions too between 1885 and 1935.
Capitalists imported Africans not because there was a lack of workers, but because they asked for too much of their profits.

And commies are not at fault for the war.

Spoiled college brats who felt rebel by embracing gommunism who deviously convinced some workers they were on the same side.

I don't think that I was talking about that time period. I think I was specifically referring to Communists and Nazis.
I did not blame Communists for the war, I explicitly acknowledged Nazi aggression, I am not talking about justice--I am talking about the movement of labor after the war.

It doesn't work like that. Most of the people who come from ME and Africa to Europe have massive unemployment rate. Cheap labor in Europe comes from Eastern Europeans that abuse the Schengen (they come to work in Western Europe and hop back to Eastern Europe)

The big profiteers of the refugee crisis are property owners in areas where refugee centers are built, because the government gives them a shit ton of cash for housing. Consumer based businesses also benefit, since the amount of consumers increases but we need to remember: all of the money they use are government money. The fact that they consume just lessens their economic burden.

>Cheap labor in Europe comes from Eastern Europeans that abuse the Schengen

You do know there were foreign workers in Europe before there was a refugee crisis, the european union or the fall of the iron curtain right?

>Huge communist/socialist Union strike to demand more workers rights
> Maoist/Troskist upper middle class youth join the bangwagon and want to start a full far-left revolution
>De Gaulle compromises with the Union and give workers more rights
>Strike ends, french working class go back to normal
>maoists are piss mad and consider that the french working class has betrayed the revolution, they will now spend every efforts to destroy this working class and replace them with the true "revolutionary people" (African immigrants)
>They are now starting to realize those immigrants and their kids are even more reactionary than the french pleb

>>They are now starting to realize those immigrants and their kids are even more reactionary than the french pleb
Were they really stupid enough to think that these people would just assimilate like that?

KGB backed 68ers that later turned on them, like when the prussians backed the bolsheviks

>maoists are piss mad and consider that the french working class has betrayed the revolution, they will now spend every efforts to destroy this working class

Ah yes Maoists, truly the political force in Western-Europe to reckon with

Yes. The post you replied to does not refer to the refugee crisis.

No, they convinced the french people immigrants would assimilate, they didn't want that to happen though they just cared they would start a far left revolution some still hope it

What?

>Ah yes Maoists, truly the political force in Western-Europe to reckon with
A huge part of the ruling politicians in europe were maoists/Troskistes at some point in their youth, it has influenced them a lot
Also in the US for example, you would be surprised how many neoconservatives were maoists in the 60's early 70's

You stupid? European intelligentsia is infested with ex-Maoists.

>you would be surprised how many neoconservatives were maoists in the 60's early 70's
I thought they were Trotskyites, but I haven't looked into it enough to know anything about their old beliefs except that they were some kind of Marxist.

Name a few ruling politcians that were ex-maoists in Europe

>ex
no

>ruling politicians
That's not the intelligentsia, which is what those anons were talking about.

some demonstration that is blown out of proportion

it didn't achieve anything

Other user literally said "a huge part of the ruling politicians in europe"

>The ussr wants to supress socialist movements and replace them with capitalist liberals
???

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Manuel_Barroso

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federica_Mogherini

The ussr wanted to undermine western nations and was basically a russian supremacist organization post stalin

Barroso former president of the european commission, for France, Lionel Jospin former primes minister

>it didn't achieve anything
It infected France and the EU with far leftism

Barroso I knew, but I don't see anything about Mogherini or Jospin being maoists or ever being part of an Maoist organisation

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I meant far left in general anything not mainstream communism not really specificallly maoists

Far leftism was always in Europe, France, it's practically its birthplace. 1968 and similar were inevitable consequences of loss of faith in authority and the pre-existing ideologies floating around

It went from counter-culture to mainstream culture in the 60's 70's

>It infected France with far leftism
I think that happend at ther very least in 1871 or earlier.

REDDIT !!!

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the Glorious Revolution or the establishment of the English Commonwealth under Cromwell

Ex, yes. And there's no infestation. There's a few cases in socialist parties, which are not the dominant political force.
That's bullshit.
African immigration in France started in the fifties. People who took part in 68 didn't get to influence policies until 81,
But Maoists revolutionaries never thought that importing Africans would help : from the very start it posed problems of disunity. And ex-maps who became famous journalists or minister were no longer revolutionaries, and never tried to advance the revolutionary ideals among the French or the immigrants.

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