OBSOLETE COMMUNISM: The Left-Wing Alternative

by Daniel & Gabriel Cohn-Bendit ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 20, 1968

The flamboyant young revolutionary (and his brother, Gabriel?) reports on the 1968 French ""revolution,"" its ideological origins and objectives, its tactics and future. In a highly readable, sometimes brash fashion, he shows how ""sporadic outbursts"" by students throughout the world, ""greatly accelerated"" by the Vietnam war, spread to France where it led to the student-worker, induced General Strike. He scores the Fouchet plan (the government's promise to make the universities more technocratic and modern), indicts the state for its very structure (not just its policies), and enjoins all citizens to enlist in the revolution. Cohn-Bendit is very outspoken in his dislikes--his capitalist publishers who ""are perfectly willing to. . . broadcast revolutionary ideas, provided only that these help to fill their pockets,"" the oldline Communists who sought to disrupt the student leaders, the ""paternalistic"" newspapers, the generally self-indulgent. He is equally out-spoken on his revolutionary aims and argues (rather convincingly) that the revolution has but begun.

Pub Date: Jan. 20, 1968

ISBN: 1902593251

Page Count: -

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 1968

Categories: NONFICTION