3000 Years of Spontaneous Insurrection

Yves Férmion     2002     280p     6 x 9

Every now and then, things explode. Riots, uprisings, revolutions, and new and bizarre social groups spring up seemingly from nowhere. Our standard histories tend to treat these as oddities, if treated at all, or as misguided responses to hard times, limited by lack of responsible leadership. For the first time in English, here’s a people’s history to puncture that balloon. From the Cynics and Spartacus through the Levelers, Diggers, and Ranters to the Revolution of the Carnation, the San Francisco Diggers, Red Guard of Shenwulian, Brethren of the Free Spirit, Guevara, the Provos, and the Metropolitan Indians, Bagaudi, Norman Peasant War, English Peasant Revolt, Los Remensas, the Iroquois Confederacy, French Revolution, Paris Commune, Zapata, Spartakus, Councils Republic of Bavaria, Councils Republic of Hungary, the Spanish Civil War, Durruti Column, Hungary 1956, May ’68, the San Francisco Diggers, Christiania and more. Nearly 100 episodes of the revolt and utopia that popped up without a plan or a leader, from the ancient Greeks to the present. Orgasms of History also includes Volny’s original artwork and sketches of the characters involved in the greatest, most inspiring events of all time. Yves Férmion lives in Paris, where he participated in the May ’68 orgasm.

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