ABSTRACT
The exuberance of youth, the exhilaration of witnessing new sources of social power and the signs of the old order in moral, if not political, decay-all these things led the students and workers protesting in 1968 to believe they were making history. I would agree: along with the equally important, if less dramatic, feminist, green and peace movements of the 1970s, the students’ and workers’ movements did make history, but not in the way that they thought.
