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From 1957 to 1972, the Situationist International published a slew of articles, pamphlets, films and journals trying to bring theoretical Marxist debates into everyday life and change public consciousness. Today we read a few of these articles on topics including art, revolution, and the Los Angeles Watts riots to see what of their imagination might be recovered.  

Links to Articles:
"The Revolution of Modern Art and the Modern Art of Revolution" https://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/si/modernart.html

"The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy"
https://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/si/decline.html

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Walker Goff

CNN and MSNBC both trashed the rioters.

Walker Goff

Well fucking duh the media narrative was different during Watts. THE WHOLE COUNTRY WAS FUCKING RACIST AS SHIT and it hadn’t even been that long since rampant McCarthyism. Jesus Christ.