The Subcultural Revolution of 1968 in the Context of the Civilizational Dynamics of Modernity
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https://doi.org/10.52575/2712-746X-2023-48-4-803-811Keywords:
youth, subcultures, capitalism, late industrial society, ideology, protestAbstract
The article attempts to synchronise and theoretically comprehend the "phenomenon of 1968". Based on a comparative analysis of the events in the USA, Germany, France, Italy and Japan, it is concluded that the global revolution of 1968 had a non-classical, multivariant, diffuse character. The main collective subject of the revolutionary dynamics was the representatives of radical youth subcultures, who opposed capitalism and the matrices of disciplinary control of late industrial society. The ideology of the 1968 revolution was eclectic and diffuse. Romantics, rebels, and opinion leaders understood quite well what they were fighting against. Far worse was the positive program of change in late industrial society. The 1968 revolution ended in defeat. But its long-term civilisational consequences, which manifested themselves in the subcultural erosion of the values and institutions of mature modernity, are still
being felt today.
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