{"id":13517,"date":"2015-10-18T19:02:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T00:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13517"},"modified":"2015-10-18T19:02:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T00:02:51","slug":"the-coming-french-revolution-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13517","title":{"rendered":"The Coming French Revolution of 2020?"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/archives\/38109\" target=\"_blank\">The Coming French Revolution of 2020?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/armstrongeconomics-wp.s3.amazonaws.com\/2015\/10\/Martin_Armstrong-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38113\" src=\"http:\/\/armstrongeconomics-wp.s3.amazonaws.com\/2015\/10\/Martin_Armstrong-4.jpg\" alt=\"Martin_Armstrong-4\" width=\"1632\" height=\"918\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>QUESTION:<\/strong>\u00a0Mr. Armstrong; Thank you for coming to Paris. You said the civil unrest would rise in France going into 2018 and there was a risk of another French Revolution in 2020. You mentioned that when surrounded by many people on the\u00a0<em>Champs<\/em>\u2013<em>\u00c9lys\u00e9es.\u00a0<\/em>Since then \u00a0I have paid attention and there is a rising discussion about capitalism and socialism that is becoming regular. Can you explain more?<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>ANSWER:<\/u><\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Each country has its own unique cycle. There was a very major turning point in France that nearly became a revolution. Even Charles de Gaulle secretly left France for a few hours after fearing for his life and a revolution.\u00a0The civil unrest began with a series of student occupation protests against capitalism, consumerism, and traditional institutions that manifested in a cultural revolution. This deeply rooted clash between freedom and capitalism contrasted against the social state to suppress the rich and industry has infected French society.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-38112 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/armstrongeconomics-wp.s3.amazonaws.com\/2015\/10\/De_Gaulle-Charles.jpg\" alt=\"De_Gaulle-Charles\" width=\"206\" height=\"306\" \/><br \/>\nThat year was a tremendously volatile period of civil unrest in France. May 1968 was highlighted by demonstrations and massive general strikes. Students, not the elderly, staged occupations of universities and factories across France. The uprising virtually brought the economy of France to a dramatic halt. The civil unrest had reached such a boiling point that political leaders feared civil war or revolution.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The social revolution of May 1968 had a profound impact upon French society and was the turning point that catapulted\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-38110 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/armstrongeconomics-wp.s3.amazonaws.com\/2015\/10\/French-May-68-Revolution.jpg\" alt=\"French May 68 Revolution\" width=\"225\" height=\"224\" \/>socialism to the forefront in French politics. This shock wave has rippled through French society for decades ever since. Alain Geismar was one of the leaders of that time and characterized the uprising as \u201ca social revolution, not as a political one.\u201d (Erlanger, Steven.<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/29\/world\/europe\/29iht-france.4.12440504.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all\">\u201cMay 1968 \u2013 a watershed in French life\u201d<\/a>.<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><i>New York Times<\/i><span class=\"reference-accessdate\">.<span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><span class=\"nowrap\">\u00a0August<\/span><\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a031,\u00a0<\/span>2012<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Hollande-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-31870 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/420x240xHollande-3.jpg.pagespeed.ic.-tuHn_mTZ6.jpg\" alt=\"Hollande-3\" width=\"420\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The French socialist state is now collapsing under<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Hollende. Civil unrest will erupt moving into 2017 and then there is the risk of another major cultural revolution as the youth do not share the same values as the socialistic elites who are in control. We will see that risk erupt by 2020 or 51.6 years from the May 1968 cultural revolution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coming French Revolution of 2020? QUESTION:\u00a0Mr. Armstrong; Thank you for coming to Paris. You said the civil unrest would rise in France going into 2018 and there was a risk of another French Revolution in 2020. You mentioned that when surrounded by many people on the\u00a0Champs\u2013\u00c9lys\u00e9es.\u00a0Since then \u00a0I have paid attention and there is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5496,9944,9941,3487,333,9942,2500,9943,5479],"class_list":["post-13517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-armstrong-economics","tag-charles-de-gaulle","tag-cultural-revolution","tag-cycles","tag-france","tag-french-revolution-of-2020","tag-history","tag-hollende","tag-martin-armstrong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13518,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13517\/revisions\/13518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}