{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Context XXI","provider_url":"http:\/\/contextxxi.org","title":"The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy\n","author_name":"Ken Knabb (translation) \u25aa \nSituationistische Internationale","width":"1200","height":"800","url":"https:\/\/licra.contextxxi.org\/the-decline-and-fall-of-the.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/licra.contextxxi.org\/the-decline-and-fall-of-the.html'\u003EThe Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy\n\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003EAugust 13 - 16, 1965, the blacks of Los Angeles revolted. An incident between traffic police and pedestrians developed into two days of spontaneous riots. Despite increasing reinforcements, the forces of order were unable to regain control of the streets. By the third day the blacks had armed themselves by looting accessible gun stores, enabling them to fire even on police helicopters. It took thousands of police and soldiers, including an entire infantry division supported by tanks, \u003Ca href=\"..\/the-decline-and-fall-of-the.html\" class=' pts_suite'\u003E(...)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}