Situationist International was started in
1957 to
oppose the
commodification of the
worker, and to inspire in the
proletariat the will to step out of the cycle of
manufactured life. It only lasted officially until
1972, yet the ideals are still prevalent among the new left.
While it lasted, it was an intellectual and highly imaginative student movement with strong Marxist influences, and located primarily in France. What made it distinct from other Marxist movements was its equilateral critique on Communism, which it declared was "state capitalism".