“Without knowing it they had tested the system; they intended no more than to challenge the ossified university system, and down came the system of governmental power together with that of the huge party bureaucracies—‘une sorte de desintégration de toutes les hiérarchies.’ It was a textbook case of a revolutionary situation which did not develop into a revolution because there was nobody, least of all the students, who was prepared to seize power and the responsibility that goes with it.”
— Hannah Arendt, A Special Supplement: Reflections on Violence
Tagged: The Night After The Revolution
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