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  • Chapter 6 - ‘We Represent Nothing’

  • from Part II - The Politics of Revolt
  • Ben Mercer, Australian National University, Canberra
  • Book:
    Student Revolt in 1968
    Published online:
    18 November 2019
    Print publication:
    28 November 2019, pp 130-154

  • Summary

    Chapter 6 describes the crisis of representative politics in the mid- to late 1960s, at the national level, the level of youth organisation, and within the university. This crisis prompted a turntowards the occupation as a political tactic, the general assembly over representative organisations, and a preference for forms of direct democracy. The protest movements demanded autonomy, although they were not always clear how this would operate. However, forms of direct democracy such as the occupation had a short life-span and generated criticism for demagogy and its domination by student leaders. I argue that the protest movements found it difficult to reconcile their anti-hierarchical drive and the intense politicisation that led towards formation of a new political party.