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Is more adequent than the French views of May ¡¦68 being just ¡¥events¡¦.

In the historical memory of France, the upheaval of May 1968 in Paris has had a considerable impact, and has been regarded as a watershed in many aspects of contemporary French society. At first glance, May ¡¦68 appears to have spontaneously begun with student protests, and then accidentally turned into a political crisis that not only paralyzed the nation but almost overthrew the de Gaulle government.1968 was a year of social revolt that saw the culmination of student protests throughout the wes

tern society. As the tradition of socialist idea since French revolution in 1789, the wave of students protest of the 60s Left was partly originated from France. Beginning as a student protest in a Parisian suburb, Nanterre,quickly spread to a general strike involving millions of French workers that temporarily paralysed the French economy. The movement had reverberations which stimulate into similar protests in cities throughout Europe. The nation was paralyzed--no sector of the workplace was unaffected; no region, city, or village was untouched. , the mainstream image of May '68 in France has become that of a cultural transformation stripped of its violence and profound sociopolitical implications.

May 68t challenged all the established institutions and denied that change must be marginal.

On the other hand, in English world, suggest May 68 is one the most significant social movement in comparison of the wave of protests in 1968, therefore the consequences is rather revolutionary. First of all, in terms of scale May ¡¦68 was the largest mass movement in France history, the French workers¡¦ movement, and the only general insurrection the overdeveloped world has known since World War II(Ross 4) There has never been a strike as powerful as May ¡¦68 that can be compared. Furthermore, it was the first general strike that extend beyond the traditional centers of industrial production to include workers in the service industries, the communication, and culture industries----- the whole sphere of social reproduction. In a very brief time, three times more workers were on strike in France than during the Popular Front in 1936 (Ross 4).

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