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As Boles says, the dominant faction of the ruling class and its state had its own reasons for ending legal segregation and the Vietnamese war. But in both cases the major factor was mass struggle from below. To assume that the national state would have ended segregation if African-Americans hadn't rebelled in a massive way, if young people hadn't become more and more radicalized, and if this rebellion was not understood as part of a world-wide rebellion against white rule, is a cynical misunderstanding of history. The same for the Vietnam war. The ruling class was increasingly unhappy by the radicalization of young people. At the time, about a million people identified as "revolutionaries." It became important for the ruling class to calm things down. Of course, the continued struggle of the Vietnamese people was a key part of this (despite their Stalinist-nationalist leadership), I cannot deny. But this only adds to the bottom-up interpretation of history.