The youth who attacked the orphanage at Auteuil as a symbolic force of control were rioting out of boredom rather than material privation, asserting their refusal to be assimilated into a pre-ordinained economic order. By throwing a brick, spitting in the face of authority, committing a crime, getting hopelessly drunk, drifting pointlessly between bars, they were able to short-circuit the 'circuit of exchange' which controlled their lives. 'Let youth cease to serve as a commodity', preached Isou. The new proletariat, above all, Isou said, must be able to accept nothing as given and deny all social forms of order. They were outsiders who were determined to stay on the outside.

Hussey on Debord