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The Year of the Barricades: A Journey through 1968, by David Caute (Harper & Row, 514 pp., $24.95)

I remember 1968 as a year of psychedelic Communism. The student Left thought it was quite a lark to shock their elders by playing Reds. The phrase “New Left” sums it up: they thought the Left could start from scratch again, without history or responsibility. They got away with it, too, as “neo-Nazis” couldn’t have.

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The Year of the Barricades: A Journey through 1968, by David Caute (Harper & Row, 514 pp., $24.95)

I remember 1968 as a year of psychedelic Communism. The student Left thought it was quite a lark to shock their elders by playing Reds. The phrase “New Left” sums it up: they thought the Left could start from scratch again, without history or responsibility. They got away with it, too, as “neo-Nazis” couldn’t have.