The details of the 1968 uprisings were different in the various
arenas of the world system, but such uprisings did occur everywhere: in
addition to the obvious 1968 events in the western world and Japan,
usually noted, I include the Cultural Revolution in China beginning in
1966 and the turn to ‘socialism with a human face’ in Czechoslovakia in
1968, as well as the diverse events in Mexico, Senegal, Tunisia, India, and
many other countries of the Third World. In all of them, however different
the local situation, there was a recurrent double theme.