The day after

The success of the current  'Colleges insurrection'  should not be measured by the sublime awe of its ecstatic moments 'oh God the sense of doing something...of achieving...it should be measured by the extent it leaves in the everyday

The 1968 French student uprising is an example...

The discourse of everyday life allowed the soixante huitards sixty-eighters to address fundamental questions pertaining to the quality of lived experience in the modern world. It provided them with an interpretive lens to investigate existential questions that, from the standpoint of orthodox Marxism, remained imperceptible. It offered both an exit strategy from the authoritarian proclivities of the Jacobin and Leninist traditions as well as a window that opened onto new areas of social emancipation, including feminism, ecology, and gay rights.