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Orgasms of history : 3000 years of spontaneous insurrection / text and story board by Fremion ; drawings and illustrations by Volny ; with Guillaume Keynia helping out on 'The souvenir album of Buenaventura Burruti' ; translated from the French by Paul Sharkey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frémion, Yves.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Social history.
- Riots--History.
- Riots.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 248 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh ; Oakland : AK, 2001.
- Summary:
- Every now and then, things explode. Riots, uprisings, revolutions, new and bizarre social groups spring up seemingly from nowhere. Our standard histories tend to treat these as oddities, if treated at all, or as misguided responses to hard times, limited by lack of responsible leadership. Here's a People's History to puncture that balloon. From the Cynics & Spartacus through the Levelers, Diggers & Ranters to the Revolution of the Carnation, the San Francisco Diggers, Red Guard of Shenwulian, Brethren of the Free Spirit, Guevara, the Provos & the Metropolitan Indians. Nearly 100 episodes of revolt and utopia which popped up without a plan or a leader from the ancient Greeks to the present.
- Fremion lives in Paris where he participated in the May '68 orgasm.
- Contents:
- The Cynics 1
- Spartacus 8
- The Bagaudi 12
- The Norman Peasant War 15
- The English Peasants' Revolt: The Great Company 17
- Los Remensas 24
- Etienne De La Boetie's Discourse on Voluntary Servitude 27
- The Iroquois League 32
- The Leagues and the Carnival in Romans 37
- Levellers, Diggers, and Ranters
- The English Revolution 45
- The Ormee 56
- The French Revolution 64
- The Paris Commune 86
- The Cempuis Orphanage 101
- La Ruche 104
- The Zapatistas 108
- The Makhnovshchina 119
- Spartakus 129
- The Councils Republic of Bavaria 136
- The Hungarian Councils Republic 142
- The Rio Gallegos Workers' Association 151
- The Spanish Revolution and the Durruti Column 154
- The Souvenir Album of Buenaventura Durruti 163
- The People's Uprising in Hungary 172
- The Red Guards of the Shengwulian 181
- The San Francisco Diggers 191
- May '68 198
- Christiania 209
- The Revolution of the Carnations 215
- Le Larzac 228.
- ISBN:
- 1902593340
- OCLC:
- 47150870
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