American 1968 was a Left victory, unlike the French version, but stayed non-revolutionary

Evidence

Developments in the USA were somewhat different. There 1968 was not a year of defeat or disorganization for the Left – such as it was. Rather, 1968, from the American point of view, was the year of the spectacular victories of the Vietnamese Tet offensive, the high point of the Black rebellion inside the country, the abdication of Lyndon Johnson, the hot summer of the anti-war movement. The historical underpinnings of the American anti-war movement were no doubt contradictory and ambiguous. On the one hand, the political underdevelopment of the United States was such that the anti-war movement could not even become a properly anti-imperialist movement, let alone a revolutionary one; for most of its participants, it was simply a movement against the direct involvement of the US armed forces in Vietnam, and it fizzled out as soon as Nixon started bringing back the troops. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 97

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts France’s 1968 as Right-victory with America’s 1968 as Left-victory — a comparative structure that resonates with the reader’s interest in cross-national divergence of political movements.