The 1968 generation’s disillusionment followed the events’ modernizing logic

Evidence

On this account, the disillusionment of the generation of 1968 was both an inevitable consequence of the objective logic of the events — which was to modernize, not to overthrow French capitalism — and a form of adaptation to the consumer society perfected as a result of that crisis. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 610

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Poststructuralism’s piecemeal politics arose from dashed 1968 revolutionary hopes. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 347; May 1968 paradoxically advanced the narcissistic individualism its actors opposed — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 534; Postmodernism’s acceptance stems from 1968ers’ class position and disillusionment — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 617 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Postmodernism emerged as a response to the revolutionary failure of 1968-76. #expands (0.80) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 627
• Postmodernism discourse expresses a generation’s disillusionment rather than describing reality. #corroborates (0.75) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 625
• Each postwar generation erases the political memory of the one before it. #complicates (0.75)
• May 1968 actually began the implosion of the social #qualifies (0.70) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 251