This polemic seems to be willing to sweep some inconvenient facts under the carpet to makes its point. There were moments of continental upheaval after the Russian Revolution from 1917-1919, and the upheaval of 1968 is hardly limited to France, but one can see similar struggles going on through the entirety of Europe (and in fact globally) in 1968. In both those cases, the upheaval is the effect of the struggles of the periphery or the semi-periphery, but it doesn't mean that they didn't occur. Or is the problem that they didn't succeed? If this is the case, then 1848 didn't happen either.
robert wood
> Marx and Engels lived the last time when a continental revolutionary
> wave swept through Europe. Since then, with a few exceptions (e.g.,
> the Spanish Civil War, France of 1968), the Europeans have ceased to
> be revolutionary.
>
> Not only that, Europe doesn't exist.