{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Context XXI","provider_url":"http:\/\/contextxxi.org","title":"The Beginning of an Era\n","author_name":"Ken Knabb (translation) \u25aa \nSituationistische Internationale","width":"1200","height":"800","url":"https:\/\/licra.contextxxi.org\/the-beginning-of-an-era.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/licra.contextxxi.org\/the-beginning-of-an-era.html'\u003EThe Beginning of an Era\n\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\u201cYou believe that these Germans will make a political revolution in our lifetime? My friend, that is just wishful thinking,\u201d wrote Arnold Ruge to Marx in March 1844. Four years later that revolution had come. As an amusing example of a type of historical unconsciousness constantly produced by similar causes and always contradicted by similar results, Ruge\u2019s unfortunate statement was quoted as an epigraph in The Society of the Spectacle, which appeared December 1967. Six months later \u003Ca href=\"..\/the-beginning-of-an-era.html\" class=' pts_suite'\u003E(...)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}