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Article: Students and workers in the transition to socialism: the singer model.
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- Monthly Review
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- March 1, 2003
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Daniel Singer's first book was Prelude to Revolution: France in May 1968, published in 1970. There he posed the question: "Could it be that a socialist revolution is beginning, that Marxism is returning to its home ground, the advanced countries for which it was designed?" And he answered his own question, Yes. The main message of the May crisis was that a "revolutionary situation can occur in an advanced capitalist country."
Singer saw in France, in 1968, a revolution from below, a spontaneous upheaval. It began in the universities of Paris. Then it spread to factories all over France, as ten million workers occupied the places where they worked. Singer ...