Political Graffiti - Paris in the late 1960s

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One graffitist wrote, “We do not want a world where the price of being certain of not dying of hunger is the risk of dying of boredom.” By writing that ‘boredom is counter-revolutionary’, revolutionaries identified the state with the repetition and alienation of consumerist society...
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They defined themselves against this, as with the artists who worked constantly but refused to sell their posters, later printing a poster that read, ‘The Revolution Is Not For Sale.’ In this, May ’68 was Paris’s part in what Ehrenreich termed the worldwide “uprising of the postwar generation, bored by affluence and stifled by the prevailing demands for conformity in lifestyle, opinion and appearance...
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