The millions of human beings who were shot, tortured, starved, treated like animals and made the object of a conspiracy of ridicule, can sleep in peace in their communal graves, for at least the struggle in which they died has enabled their descendants, isolated in their air-conditioned apartments, to believe, on the strength of their daily dose of television, that they are happy and free. The Communards went down, fighting to the last, so that you too could qualify for a Caribbean cruise.

One of the longest SI members and frequent editor of the journal Internationale Situationniste Vaneigem finally left the SI in November 1970 citing their failures as well as his own in his letter of resignation. Soon after Debord issued a typically scathing response denouncing both Vaneigem and his critique of the Situationist International. org "The voice of Raoul Vaneigem was one of the strongest of the Situationists.

Vaneigem's slogans frequently made it onto the walls of Paris during the May 1968 uprisings. Raoul Vaneigem (Dutch: [raˈul vɑnˈɛiɣəm]; born 1934) is a Belgian writer and philosopher. Counterpoised to Guy Debord's political and polemic style Vaneigem offered a more poetic and spirited prose.