Η “Γενικευμένη Απεργία στη Γαλλία”, κατέχει μια ξεχωριστή θέση μέσα στην πληθώρα των κειμένων πού έχουν αφιερωθεί σ’ αυτό το θέμα. Δεν είναι ένας χρονολογικός πίνακας γεγονότων, ούτε μια καταγραφή του “ηγετικού” ρόλου της μιας ή της άλλης πολιτικής σέχτας, κι ούτε, ακόμα, ή ανακάλυψη κάποιας σύγχρονης νέας δυναμικής της εξέγερσης στον “νέο-” ή έστω στο “μετακαπιταλισμό”. Αντίθετα, εξετάζει τη δράση των εργατών και των φοιτητών το Μάη και Ιούνη του 1968, για ν’ ανακαλύψει με ποιο τρόπο αποτέλεσε μιαν αντίδραση στις συνθήκες της σημερινής καπιταλιστικής ζωής ποια ήταν ή δύναμη και ποια τα όριά της, και με ποιο τρόπο επισημαίνει τις δυνατότητες για τη δημιουργία ενός νέου είδους κοινωνίας.
Cohn-Bendit was born in Montauban, France, to German-Jewish parents who had fled Nazism in 1933. He spent his childhood in Montauban. He moved to Germany in 1958, where his father had been a lawyer since the end of the war. He attended the Odenwaldschule in Heppenheim near Frankfurt, a secondary school for children of the upper middle class. Being officially stateless at birth, when he reached the age of 14 he chose German citizenship, in order to avoid conscription. Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit (born 4 April 1945) is a German politician, active in France and Germany, and was a student leader during the unrest of May 1968 in France. He was also known during that time as Dany le Rouge (French for "Danny the Red", because of both his politics and the color of his hair). He is currently co-president of the group European Greens–European Free Alliance in the European Parliament, becoming "Dany le Vert" (French for "Danny the Green", because of his new fight for ecology). In 2010, he was involved in founding JCall, advocacy group based in Europe to lobby the European parliament on foreign policy issues concerning the Middle East.