Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff in October 2014. Fabio Rodrigues Pozzebom/Agência Brasil. Some rights reserved.
In Mai 68 n´a pas eu lieu, Deleuze and Guattari react to the statement that nothing survived the cycle of struggles of that magical year, 1968. Published in 1984, in the gloomy atmosphere of the Reagan and nuclear fear era, the article demanded "a little possibleness, lest we choke". For the authors, it was as if the constituent momentum of the new worlds of May 68 had completely disappeared from the narrative and understanding of the historical present. The disappearance had taken place on both the left and the right of the political-ideological spectrum, resulting in a broad front of oblivion.
Unlike other revolutions, which reached their crystallization point in producing new institutions and collective assemblies – as happened with the New Deal, Japan’s takeoff, the European Welfare, despite all its ambiguities - that event was completely blinded. Everything that had been opened, as a field of possibilities, ended up being repressed, caricatured, and marginalized.
