The Dislocation of Vendémiaire (Part I): The 21st-Century Breakthrough Actors and Ideological Collusion【A commentary on the French riots between September and October】【葡月的错位(一)21世纪的破局者与意识形态的合谋】

A commentary on the French riots between September and October

This article takes the French student-led protests and unrest between September and October 2026 as its point of departure. It rejects the mainstream interpretation of the movement as a broad multi-class alliance of diverse demands, and instead argues that it reflects a deep internal differentiation and fragmentation of the proletariat under digital capitalism. While affirming the student group’s role as a “quasi-proletariat” and an early outpost of struggle, the article contends that the movement remained at a pre-Marxist spontaneous stage because it lacked a scientific program and the integration of an advanced party. It proposes “actual control over the production of labor power” as the core criterion for class analysis and describes the movement as a “dislocated” struggle shaped by an ideological collusion between bourgeois narratives and the movement’s own political weaknesses.

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Submitted by 张皓翔 on October 19, 2026