History is written by the victors.
No wonder the “heroes” of May 68 have since had the honors of books, novels and films.
As early as the 1980s, Hamon and Rotman were sculpting them in a talented hagiography entitled
Generation
.
Almost forty years later, the same story and the same heroes are staged by a historian affiliated with the journal
Communisme
, Philippe Buton.
The tone is more academic and less romantic;
more emphasis is placed on the main lines and less on biographies.
But the vision is not very different: we follow with sympathy the itinerary of these revolutionaries who dreamed of taking the Winter Palaces and going to take the summer palaces of the Club Méditerranée:
"The story we are talking about in this book is not the history of the far left in general, but that of the millenarian belief in a near and radical revolution. ”
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