«From an eight - hour workday, to no child
labor, from LGBT rights, to women's suffrage, from the Civil Rights
movement, to freeing the slaves, were all
revolutionary moonshots.
Celant's use of militant language — his evocation of artists taking to the «battlefield» and of «
revolutionary existence» — is no surprise, since his essay appeared in print during the contemporaneous student and
labor movements» largest demonstrations in Turin and Milan.