Released during the Summer of Love, it would go on to inspire the revolts of 1968.
Which appropriately was the year of the pig.
This work influenced the broad left in France and Europe including the post structuralists, and post modernists, who watered it down and created a specter of itself for their own academic pursuits.
It is forty years old and still caustically accurate as a critique of post- modernist capitalism.
Originally published in 1967
SEE:
Baudrillard RIP
Same Old Olympics
Their Satanic Majesties Request
Black and Redmonton
The Fifth International
Kabbalistic Kommunism
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For a Ruthless Criticism of Everything ExistingNew Age Libertarian Manifesto
The Right To Be Greedy
May 68 ReduxTout va Bien
After Montreal A View From the Past
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