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The anti-Vietnam movement represented the end of the interesting period as far a radical discourse went. The prime driver of radical discourse peaking in 1968 were the art and aesthetic movements that came out of the Beat Generation. This came right after the civil rights struggles. The Vietnam stuff was geo political noise that was actually a distraction from the more authentic everyday life critiques of the mid-late 60s period. As Bob Black pointed out the collapse of the radical movement was late 1970 and it was after that that it became all about Vietnam.

If you want another 1968 type radical movement you will have to return to the aesthetic poetic philosophical well that it sprang from which was not so political. You need your Beats and Lettrists before you have your radical prophets.