1968: An International 1905?1

Abstract

The article argues that the events of 1968 were an historic turning point of the order of 1905 in Russia. The latter was a dress rehearsal for the revolution in 1917 and the question is the extent to which the lessons of 1968 are crucial for the next upsurge. It discusses the causes of the events of 1968 and later noting that they constituted an historic break in the stability of the bourgeois world order. In particular, it refers to the end of Keynesianism, the decline in the role of the Cold War and of imperialism. It stresses the importance of the overthrow of the state itself.