Generation '68: The Elite Revolution and Its Legacy

by Kerry Bolton

474 pages, Paperback

Published November 30, 2023

Reviews

[joan · Rating 4 out of 5]

In which the dynastic families of America and their Foundation philanthropies go all in on remaking the world to look like Star Trek, and set about flanking, pacing-and-leading, High+Low-v-Middling everything that spoils the composition. And also plan to secure a substantial risk-free global income stream in the process.

One fascinating insight is that the Long March was policy, at least of one part of the state. The Trotskyist true-believers, if such things exist, walked in through doors opened by Wall St and the foundations.
One less convincing one is the apparent dislike of Wall St for war (ie Vietnam): if true then, it's surely not so today when instability is the grist to arbitrage and quick profit.

I suppose the big question is the ancestry of the vision of Star Trek: the idea of a free-floating cosmopolitan order, post-race, post-nation, post-everything. What's the ancestry of lightness-of-being, of forgetfulness, of creative destruction being a great thing - not a cyclical thing, but rolling onwards forever? Is it the emergent will of Capital? And how does this elite work, with its feminine side: generous, careless, indulgent; and its masculine: machiavellian, panoptical, ruthless.. There's something Olympian about it, and the gods notoriously get bored with human order and peace.

[Bronze Age Barbarian · Rating 5 out of 5]

This great and info packed book reads slowly as there are a ton of names, organizations and different details that tie Bolton's narrative together. What Bolton comes up with is probably the most complete history of the astro turfed counter culture of the 1960s and beyond. Invaluable for learning about the inner workings of the machine that runs the West to this day.

[Vlad Gabriel · Rating 5 out of 5]

explores more deeply the oligarchic funding of liberal-leftists ideas and activism, you could say it is a more in-depth version of Bolton's previous book "revolution from above"