Even if it isn’t a question of reducing Socialisme ou Barbarie to their critique of the bureaucracy,
their contribution on that point was important. My discussions with Debord confirmed it. He’d
adopted a sympathetic but critical distance from Socialisme ou Barbarie. He kept it until the
distance was complete. Socialisme ou Barbarie retained an anti-bureaucratic radicality without
managing to accomplish anything else.
Raoul Vaneigem, Self-Portraits and Caricatures of the Situationist International