The SI had no
reason to be opposed to Socialisme ou Barbarie. We agreed with their analysis of the
bureaucratization of the workers’ movement. They lacked what we had: poetry, that is to say,
self-management, which was the poetry of the proletariat rediscovering its everyday life,
rediscovering the veritable substance of class struggle: the self-management of everyday life…
Raoul Vaneigem, Self-Portraits and Caricatures of the Situationist International