In the 1970s, following a wave of massive wildcat strikes and student protests in 1968, the French Left found itself at a crossroads. While traditional left wing parties such as the Socialist Party and the Comumunist Party supported an economic model centered around nationalization and state enterprises, a significant portion of the New Left possessed a more libertarian streak. “Autogestion”, or self management, stressed the importance of devolving decision-making power to workers themselves at their sites of work. With the extra-parliamentary left seemingly gaining momentum at the beginning of the decade, various “traditional” left-wing organizations picked up the slogan of self-management in an attempt to capitalize on their success. At its high-water mark in the 1970s, nearly every faction in the splintered French left had at least tacitly signed on to the idea of autogestion. This surface-level agreement, however, only served to hide deeper disagreements between the more “revolutionary” wing of the movement and institutional left-wing organizations.