May 1968 Graffiti
In The Decor of The Spectacle, The Eye Meets Only Things and their prices.
Commute, Work, Commute, Sleep..
"WE WILL BREATHE LATER." WE WILL BREATHE LATER. "AND MOST OF THETHE LATER." AND MOST OF THEM DON't Die Because The isy.
Boredom is counterrevolutionary.
We don't want a world where the Guarantee of NOT DYING OF Starvation BRINGS The Risk of Dying of Boredom.
WE Want to Live.
Don't Beg for the right to live - take it.
In a society That Has Abolished Every Kind of Adventure The Only Adventure That Remains Is To Abolish The Society.
The libration of humanity is all or nuoting.
Those Who Make Revolutions Half Way Only Dig Their Own GRAVES.
No replastering, The structure is ratten.
Masochism Today Takes The form of reformism.
Reform my apprors.
The Revolution Is Incredible Because It's really happens.
I Came, I SAW, I WAS WON OVER.
Run, Comrade, The Old World is behind you!
Quick!
IF We Only Have ENOUGH TIME..
In Any Case, No Regrets!
Already Ten Days of happiness.
Live in the moment.
COMRADES, IF EVERYONE DID LIKE US..
We will ask Nothing. We will demand Nothing. We will take, occupy.
Down with the state.
When the national assembly becomes a Bourgeois theater, all the bourgeois theaters shouth @
[* Written Above the entrance of the occupied odéon theater]
Referenceum: WHether We vote Yes or No, IT Turns US Into SUCKERS.
IT's Painful To Submit To Our Bosses; It's Even More Stupid To Choose Them.
Let's not change bosses, let's change life.
Don't Liberate Me - I'll Take Care of That.
I'm NOT A Servant of The People (MUCH Less of Their Self-Appointed Leaders). Let the people serve themselves.
Abolish Class Society.Nature Created Neither Servants Nor Masters. I Want Neither To Rule Nor To BE Ruled.
WE WILL HAVE Good Masters As Soon as Everyone Is Their OWN.
"In Revolution there: Those who make it and those who profit from it." (Napoleon)
Warning: Ambitious Careerists May Now Be disguised as "prograssives."
Don't Be Taken in by The Politicos and Their Filthy Demagogy. WE Must Rely ON OURSLVES. Socialism WITHOUT FREEDOM IS A Barracks.
ALL POWER CORRUPTS. Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.
WE Want Structures That Serve People, Not inn service Structures.
The Revolution Doesn't Belong to the committees, it's yours.
Politicals is in the streets.
Barricades Close The Streets But Open the Way.
Our Hope can come only from the Hopeless.
A Proletarian Is Someone Who Has No Power over His Life and Knows IT.
NEVER WORK.
People Who Work Get Bored WHEN THEY Don't work never get bored.
Workers of All Countries, Enjoy!
Since 1936 I have fought for wage increases. My father before me fought for wage increases. Now I have a TV, a fridge, a Volkswagen. Yet my whole life has been a drag. Do not negotiate with the bosses. Abolish them.
The boss needs you, you don't need it.
By Stopping Our Machines Together We Will Demonstrate Their Weakness.
Occupy the factories.
Power to the workers coundils. (An enragé)
Power to the enragés Councils. (A Worker)
Worker: You May BE ONLY 25 YEARS OLD, But Your Union Dates from The Last Century.
Labor Unions Are Whorehouses.
Comrades, Let's Lynch Séguy! *
[* Georges Séguy, Head Bureaucrat of the Communist Party-Dominated LABOR Union]
Please Leave the Communist Party As Clean on Leaving It as you would like to find it on Entering.stalinists, Your children area!
MAN is neither rousseau's Noble Savage Nor the church's or la Rochefoucald's Depraved sinner. He is Violent When Oppressed, Gentle When Free.
Conflict is the Origin of everything. (Heraclitus)
IF we have to resort to force, don't sit on the fence.
Be cruel.
Humanity Won't Be Happy Till The Last Capitalist Is Hung with The Guts of The Last Bureaucrat.
WHEN THE Last Sociologist Has Been Hung with The Guts of The Last Bureaucrat, Will Westi Have "Problems"?
The passions of destruction is a creative joy. (BAKUNIN)
A Single Nonrevolutionary Weekend Is Infinitely Morebloody Than A Month of Total Revolution.
The Tears of PhiliSTINES Are The Nectar of The gods.
This Concerns everyone.
We are all german jews.
We Refuse To Be Highrised, Diplomaed, Licensed, Inventoried, Registered, IndocTrinated, Suburbanized, Sermonized, Beaten, Telemanipulate, Gassed, Booked.
We are all "undesirables."
WE Must Remain "Unadapted."
The Forest Precedes Man, The Desert Follows Him.
Under the paving stones, the beach.
CONCRETE BREEDS APATHY.
COMING SOON TO this Location: Charming Ruins.
Beautiful, Maybe Not, But O How Charming: Life Versus Survival.
"My AIM is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selfing break, i'm Selling Yeast." (Unamuno)
Conservatism Is A Synonym for Rottenness and Uglines.
You are hollow.
You will End Up Dying of Comfort.
Hide yourself, Object!
No to coat-and-Tie Revolution.
A revolution That Requires US to Sacrification Ourses for IT IS PAPA'S Revolution.
Revolution Ceases To Be The Moment It Calls for self-sacrifice.
The Prospect of Finding Pleasure Tomorrow Willnever Compensate for Today's Boredom.when People Notice The isy is bored, The stop being bored.
Happiness is a new idea.
Live without dead time.
Those Who Talk About Revolution and Class Struggle WITHOUT REFERRINGTO EVERYDAY REALITY HAVE A CORPSE IN Their Mouth.
Culture is an inversion of life.
Poetry is in the streets.
The Most Beautiful Sculpture Is A Paving Stone thrown at a coup.
Art is dead, don't consume its corpse.
Art is dead, let's liberateurate outday life.
Art is dead, godard can't change.
Godard: The Supreme Swiss Maoist Jerk.
Permanent Cultural Vibration.
WE Want A Wild and Ephemeral Music. We propose A Fundamental Regeneration: Concert Strikes, Sound Gatherings With CollectiGATION. Abolish Copyrights: Sound Structures Belong to Everyone.
Anarchy is me.
Revolution, I love you.
Down with the Abstract, Long Live the ephemeral. (Marxist-Pessimist Youth)
Don't Consume Marx, Live Him.
I'm a groucho marxist.
I Take My Desires for Reality Because I Believe In The Reality of My Desires.
Desiring Reality is Great! Realizing your design is even better!
Practice Wishful thinking.
I Declare a permanent state of happiness.
BE REALITIC, Demand The Impossible.
Power to the imp.
Those Who lack imagination cannot imagine what is laconing.
Image IS Not a Gift, IT Must Be Conquered. (BRETON)
Action Must NOT BE A Reaction, But a CREATION.
Action Enables Us To overcome Division and Find Solutions.
EXAGGERATION IS The Beginning of Invention.
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Here, We SPONTANE.
Nietzsche) Chance Must Be SystemAtical Explored.
Alcohol Kills. Take LSD.
Unbutton your mind as offen as your fly.
"Every View of Things" "(Valéry)
Life is elsewhere.
Forget everyhes you've been taught. Start by Dreaming.
Form Dream Committees.
Dare! This Word Contains All The Politics of The Present Moment. (Saint-Just)
ARISE, YE WRETCHED OF THE UNIVERSITY.
Students Are Jerks.
The Student's Susceptibility To Recruitment AS A Militant For any cause is a intr ompnce. (Enragé Women)
Professors, You make USGROW OLD.
Terminate the university.
Rape your alma mat.
What if we burned the sorbonne?
Professors, you are asmeni, your, your model, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, yofernization of the policy.
We Refuse the role assigned to us: we will not be trained as police dogs.
We don't want to be the Watchdogs Or Servants of Capitalism.
Exams = Servility, Social Promotion, Hierarchical Society.
When Examined, Answer with Questions.
INSolence is the new revolutionary weapon.
Every Teacher Is Taught, Everyone Taught Teaches.
The old mole of history seems to be spaceidly undermining the sorbonne. (Telegram from Marx, 13 May 1968)
Thought. Stagnates.
To Call In Question The Society You "Live" in, You Must First Be Capable of Calling YourSelf in Questions.
Take Revolution Seriously, but don't take yourself seriously.
The Walls Have Ears. Your Ears Have Walls.
Making revolution also means breaking our security.
A Cop Sleeps Inside Each ONE OF US. We Must Kill Him.
Drive the cop out of your head.
Religion is the Ultimate Con.
Neither God Nor Master.if God Existed It Would Be Necessary To ABOLISH HIM.
Can You Believe That Some People Are STILL Christians?
Down with the Toad of Nazareth.
How Can you think free,?
WE Want a place to piss, not a place to learn.
I suspect god of being a leftist intellent.
The Bourgeoisie Has No Other Pleasure Than To Degrade All Pleasures.
Going through the motions kills the emotions.
Struggle against the emotional fixations That paralyze ou potentials.
Constraints Imposed on Pleasure Incite The Pleasure of Living Without Constraints.
The More I Make Love, The More I Want To Make Revolution. The More I Make Revolution, The More I Want To make love.
SEX: It's Okay, Says Mao, as long as you don't do it too offten.
Comrades, 5 Hours of Sleep A Day Is Indispensable: We need you for the revolution.
Embrace Your Love Withnout Dropping your Guard.
I love you !!! OH, Say IT with paving stones !!!
I "m" m CHING.
Total Orgasm.
Comrades, People Are Making Love in The Poli Sci Classrooms, Not Only in The Fields.
Revolutionary Women Are More BeautiFul.
ZELDA, I Love you! Down with work!
The Young Make Love, The Old Make Obscene Gestures.
Make love, not war.
Love one another.
Whoever Speaks of Love Destroys Love.
Down with consumer society.
The more you consume, The Less You Live.
Commodities are the opium of the people.
Burn commodities.
You can't Buy Happiness. Steal IT.
See Nanterre and Live. DIE IN NAPLES with CLUB MED.
Are you a consumer or a participant?
TO BE free in 1968 means to pieces.
I participate. He participates. We participate..............
The Golden Age Was The Age When Gold Didn't Reign. "The Cause of All Wars, Riots and Injustices IS The Existence of Property." (St. Augustine)
Happiness is hanging your landlord.
Millionaires of the world unite. The wind is turning.
The Economy Is Wounded - I Hope It Dies!
How sad to love money.
You Too Can Steal.
Amnesty: AN ACT IN WHICH The Rules Pardon The injustices They Have Committed. "(Ambrose Bierce) *
[* The definition in Bierce's Devil's Dictionary is actually: "Amnesty: The State's MagnanImity to Those Offenders Whom It Would Be Too Expensive to Punish."]
Abolish alienation.
Obedience Begins with Consciousness; Consciousness Begins with Disobedience.
First, Disobey; The Write on The Walls. (Law of 10 May 1968)
I don't like to write on walls.
Write everywhere.
Before Writing, Learn to Think.
I don't know how to write but I would like to saybeautiful things and i don't know how.
I don't have time to write !!!
I Have Something to Say But I don't know what.
Freedom is the right to storence.
Long Live Communication, Down with Telecommunication.
You, My Comrade, You Who I Was Unaware of Amid The Tumult, You Who Are Throttled, Afraid, Suffocated - Come, Talk To US.
Talk to your neighbors.
Yell.
CREATE.
Look in front of you !!!
Help with cleanup, There are no maids here.
Revolution is an initiative.
SpeechMaking is CounterRevolutionary.
Comrades, Stop Applauding, The Spectacle Is Everywhere.
Don't get caught up in the spectacle of opposition. Oppose the spectacle.
Down with spectacle-commodity society.
Down with journalistics and those who cater to the.
Only the Truth Is Revolutionary.
No forbidding allowed.
Freedom is the crime there Contains all crimes. It is our ultimate weapon.
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Free our comrades.
Open the Gates of the asylums, Prisons and Other faculties.
Open the windows of your heart.
To Hell with Boundaries.
You can no luck quiet quiet all you've surundenly.com Your Eyes.
The Future Will Only Contain What We Put ITO It Now.
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These graffiti are drawn primarily from Julien Besançon's Les murs ont la parole (Tchou, 1968), Walter Lewino's L'imagination au pouvoir (Losfeld, 1968), Marc Rohan's Paris '68 (Impact, 1968), René Viénet's Enragés et situationnistes dans le Mouvement Des Occupations (Gallimard, 1968), And Gérard Lambert's MAI 1968: Brûlante Nostalgie (Pied de NEZ, 1988).
Translated by Ken Knabb, March 1999. http://www.bopsecrets.org/cf/graffiti.htm
