And apropos of that last post, Mr. Fitzgerald helps keep a sense of proportion:

The Marxist, Marcusian and Sartrian dialectics that inspired the students in France, Germany, Britain and the USA in 1968 have been completely discredited as amoral, selfish posturing. The truly revolutionary idea of that year was the notion of human rights that inspired the captive peoples of the Soviet bloc to protest in public and risk imprisonment, exile or death.

At a time when the spoiled brats of 1968 are being romanced for their excesses, we should all make a vow that when the 50th anniversary of that seminal year comes around it is not the opponents of freedom who will be honoured, but its defenders. They faced down the tanks; they went to Siberia. They started a revolution that spread from Prague to Red Square and beyond. They were the real revolutionaries.

Posted by David Fleck at 23 August 2008 09:35 AM