A key work of the rebellious history of 1967-68 is the Handbook of Living. Alongside Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle, it shaped the slogans on the walls and posters of May '68. Vaneigem's poetic, witty, angry, and radical style is indispensable to modern social criticism. His provocative theses against the stunting of emotions, against commodity society and patriarchy, against the entire world of economics, emphasize spontaneity, individual experience, and the free nature of needs. The perspective of power, with its hierarchy, sacrifice, and labor, should be transformed into a perspective of self-determination, creativity, spontaneity, and poetry. Radical subjectivity finds its realization in the history made by all. With his stance, Vaneigem eludes any ideological labeling.