Many who followed the 1968 generation (I graduated college in 1980) see them in fact as indulged children 'finding themselves' through revolutionary posturing. Consider Mr. Marcuse's statement "Internationally, the ‘68 protests changed the character of post-war politics, helped end the Vietnam War, and legitimized concerns about peace, welfare and democracy beyond the prevailing mainstream consensus" It's easier to postulate than actually argue. The 1968 protesters ushered in Pres. Nixon and six more years of war. The Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia showed that it had no impact on generating peace or democracy. The nature of post-war politics was, in fact, unchanged. …
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