The thought of the Situationist International: Raoul Vaneigem and Guy Debord
The following article tries to introduce the reader to the approaches of the Situationist International. The Situationist International is a critical movement developed in France in the sixties, his diagnosis of everyday life in the society of the show allowed him to become one of the major ideological referents in the revolutionary movement developed in France in 1968 known as the May French. The Situationist International was formed by seventy intellectuals from different parts of Europe, but in this article we will take into account the postulates issued by Raoul Vaneigem and Guy Debord, since they are the most influential intellectuals of this movement. The Situationists tried to analyze the evolution of society from the end of the Second World War to its time (Cold War and the Vietnam War), Raoul Vaneigem and Guy Debord called this society as: commercial-show, it was dominated and unified by the economy. Both situationist authors had a strong Marxist influence and were strong critics of Marxism posed by Stalin. The Situationist International defended the Marxist ideal of endowing the worker with a theoretical apparatus to awaken his conscience and transform his reality, which is why his criticisms of art and politics were fundamental in the spring of Paris.