[eeks]

That could not be more true. Mai 68 is now considered in some thought circles to be the first “color revolution”. The main figureheads come from French upper middleclass bourgeoisie (Cohn-bendit, Sauvageot, Geismar, Goupil) and derailed legitimate blue collar upsets to push their liberal/libertarian agenda in order to shake up the conservative government led by General de Gaulle.

At that very moment, losing ground, de Gaulle flees France for Baden-Baden to regroup with General Massu. After that meeting de Gaulle decides to resign, leaving the room to the banker Pompidou, much more open to the Anglo-saxon “weltanshauung” that the General spent his life fighting.

[icebraining]

Sounds like a replay of the events of a century before, during the French revolution of 1848 and the subsequent June Days.

[olivermarks]

You could argue the upper middleclass bourgeoisie figureheads were agent provocateurs helping to restabilize the status quo