Enragés

Les Enragés (literally "The Angry Ones") were a radical group active during the French Revolution (1789) opposed to the Jacobins. Initiated by Jacques Roux, Theophile Leclerc, Jean Varlet and others, they believed that liberty for all meant more than mere constitutional rights. Roux once said that "liberty is no more than an empty shell when one class is allowed to condemn another to starvation and no measures taken against them".

Les Enragés were brought back to life in France in 1968 by a group of students based at Nanterre University. They were heavily influenced by The situationists and would go on to be one of the leading groups in the May 1968 French insurrection.

References

"Enragés and Situationists in the Occupation Movement, France, May'68" by René Viénet (published by Autonomedia / Rebel Press).

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