The Party, The Everyday (1961) (opens in new tab)

Written a few months after his resignation from the Internationale Situationniste in March 1961, André Frankin’s “Le parti, le quotidien” was published in issue 25-26 of Arguments. The article opens with a quote from noted sociologist Henri Lefebvre, then goes on to argue that the failure of Europen’s political parties can be explained by their inability to access workers’ everyday live. “The party, everyday life: there is no possible balance between the two, there is only a dialectical relat...