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" It was never, as some have suggested, a socialist uprising. Far from it - socialism was dying on its feet. In its most extreme form socialism had by then became the played-out Marxism of Soviet Russia, and if the protesters in Czechoslovakia and Poland were drawn together by anything, it was a feeling that they wanted to share the rewards of Western capitalism rather than reject them. Gene McCarthy, the presidential candidate who came within 300 votes of defeating "

Sobre Maio de 1968, Magnus Linklater faz uma reflexão que devemos ter em conta. Mostra na primeira pessoa a transformação entre esse periodo e o actual, como fazem falta alguns daqueles principios e como muitos deles (manifestantes) nem sabiam o que ali faziam.