Německý rok 1968 - Předpoklady, průběh a důsledky kulturní revoluce v SRN – Valenta Aleš (2021)

While conservatives interpret the year 1968 in the West as the first step on a path that brought the West to the brink of a 'soft' variant of totalitarianism, the opinion of today's Western elites and many social science intellectuals in former 'Eastern' Europe is quite the opposite. According to their judgment, student rebels shattered the authoritarian structures of post-war society in favor of a higher degree of democracy and liberating plurality. These two positions are entirely contradictory, as the first prioritizes freedom, while the second favors equality, or rather, a permanent leftist radicalization of 'liberalism.' The study 'The German Year 1968: Preconditions, Course, and Consequences of the Cultural Revolution in the FRG' thoroughly addresses this topic, which is still very little known and understood in the Czech context – as is the concept itself. Yet it is a phenomenon that is a fundamental cause of the current fatal degeneration of Western liberalism and the severe crisis in Western Europe and the United States. In the introduction, the author devotes considerable attention to the specific mentality of the Germans, which has profoundly marked Germany's history in the 20th century, including the year 1968. The exposition of the genesis of the (neo)Marxist student and intellectual rebellion of '68 also...