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Question: Who would you have supported?
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The revolution
 
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Charles de Gaulle
 
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« on: June 03, 2007, 10:53:05 PM »

I would've been a student revolutionary. I would've supported toppling de Gaulle and replacing him with a communist government.
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« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2007, 11:10:14 PM »

Both are disgusting human trash.
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« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2007, 05:06:30 AM »

Fully Neither. But would almost certainly lean towards the revolutionaries, while laughing at them.
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« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2007, 07:52:01 AM »

De Gaulle, and I would've voted for his UDR in the subsequent general elections.
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« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2007, 01:23:24 AM »

Wow, this forum is quite reactionary.
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« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2007, 07:08:04 AM »

Neither
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« Reply #6 on: June 07, 2007, 06:36:11 AM »

de Gaulle is nominally preferable to communism.
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« Reply #7 on: June 07, 2007, 01:01:07 PM »

DeGaulle, because strikers that deprive people of electricity and running water for weeks are complete scum.
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« Reply #8 on: June 08, 2007, 07:20:14 AM »

Ugh.....Ill pass on being pigeonholed into one of these ugly choices. I may have supported the revolution if forced to choose, but no more than holding a flag up in my backyard or something. Tongue
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« Reply #9 on: June 08, 2007, 07:22:39 AM »

De Gaulle
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« Reply #10 on: June 08, 2007, 07:23:54 AM »

de Gaulle is nominally preferable to communism.

Well said!
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« Reply #11 on: June 08, 2007, 02:43:38 PM »

De Gaulle
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« Reply #12 on: June 08, 2007, 07:12:38 PM »
« Edited: June 08, 2007, 07:14:21 PM by TX_1824 »

I support overthrowing De Gaulle and crushing the communist.
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« Reply #13 on: April 11, 2010, 04:20:50 PM »

bump.
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« Reply #14 on: April 11, 2010, 04:22:40 PM »

The situationists.
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« Reply #15 on: April 11, 2010, 09:21:49 PM »

De Gaulle > Communists
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« Reply #16 on: April 11, 2010, 09:38:20 PM »

The revolution, though not enthusiastically.
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« Reply #17 on: April 12, 2010, 10:03:34 AM »

Why do people think the students and the other groups associated with it (and this would include the striking workers) were "communists"? If May 68 achieved anything it made it impossible for the PCF to ever achieve government due to the splinting on the left which played such a major part in by not supporting the students and the strikers.
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« Reply #18 on: April 12, 2010, 01:13:16 PM »

Given that the protagonists of Mai 68 were well-off leftist students, I would of course be supportiing them.
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« Reply #19 on: April 21, 2010, 02:27:08 PM »
« Edited: April 21, 2010, 02:29:19 PM by Bunoah »

Mai 68:

One side: Students, youths, women, mainly fighting for the liberalization of the society.

Other side: Workers, fighting for labor rights.

The 2 sides never joined, workers always refused, this is why a political revolution never occurred. 'Communism' was only in some rhetorics heard here or there on both sides, nothing more. Both sides won anyhow though, students, youths, women, liberalized society, it has been the way the counter-culture took France, workers won rights.

There haven't been a revolution but it remains the last one of the 'revolutionary acts' that France loves having. Something which is really part of the culture, French keep seeing them as children of 'The Revolution', something that has been constantly updated with new events since 'The Big One', and that is part of the spirit of all these strikes, strikes of workers, of students, of high-schoolers (the latter being the only ones I lived personally, well, I was happy when it occurred, I went computer at home, or cinema, or by some friends, there has been at least one high-schooler national strike on each of my 3 years of high-school, at least 3 days each I'd say, sometimes one week or a bit more iirc, funny, and all the 'strikers' where good representative of that 'revolutionary spirit' in my eyes). I also think this 'French Revolution Spirit' could be used again to create a new appealing story telling in the future, someone like Ségolène Royal wouldn't fear to do that at least I'd think, would suit with this general ambiance in Western countries of cultural conservatism and fantasies of the foundations of their culture.

In that sens I would say that France might be the only country in which an inner revolution as been successful (at least as far as I can tell, I may not be aware of some examples), it is seen as the foundation of the current culture, it has always been updated and not contested on the long term.

As to the question, heretic one to me, can't answer.
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« Reply #20 on: April 21, 2010, 02:34:27 PM »

Considering that I am currently a left-wing college student, I think it should be pretty obvious.
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« Reply #21 on: April 21, 2010, 03:49:14 PM »

Wait!

A live TV show has just been 'taken in hostage'! Well, they only irrupted on the show to speak about their movement and went off, that's all. But with streamers written...'Unemployeds Strike'! France Wink

Well, more seriously it's a movement to speak about social precariousness in general.
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« Reply #22 on: April 24, 2010, 03:24:23 PM »

De Gaulle of course.
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« Reply #23 on: April 24, 2010, 06:03:19 PM »

Neither.  Like 1968 in all places, I'd be panicked and freaking out about the order I had always known dissolving and hoping that everything would go away and go back to normal.
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« Reply #24 on: April 24, 2010, 06:06:52 PM »

De Gaulle, and I would've voted for his UDR in the subsequent general elections.

Dear, dear. I was stupid back then.
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