At the beginning of the movement, Hannah Arendt welcomed with enthusiasm the ‘68 as a revolutionary explosion of happiness to act and desire to participate. She never ceased to theorize her idea of politics as an expression of creativity and joy, meaning power as potentiality and possibility of acting, of expressing herself together with her peers in the exciting awareness of being able to change the world. All this in sharp contrast to the human condition of isolation, impotence and superfluity experienced under totalitarian regimes. On the other hand, Arendt did not spare harsh criticism towards a movement that was soon extinguished by violence and frustration, dispersing itself in the thousand streams of consumer society, in which the postmodern masses once again experience the same isolation and powerlessness.