I would say about 3,000 people gathered with banners and chanting for freedom and democracy and dignity

Of course, hanging out is slightly undervalued. What’s the alternative? The bar is not hanging out. Bars and cafes are where revolutions start, but the types of revolutions that start in bars and cafes aren’t necessarily by their nature communist or Marxist or even progressive. They can also be fascist. They can go in either direction. But hanging out retains potential. In being generous about things like Occupy Wall Street, it has a strong component of hanging out.

Public opinion at first supported the students, but quickly turned against them after its leaders, invited to appear on national television, “behaved like irresponsible utopianists who wanted to destroy the ‘consumer society.”

In some branches of industry, the girls and women work through the night together with the males.