In a new Foreign Policy article, Christian Caryl describes how the events of 1979 defined the world we live in today. In 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini seized power in Iran, Margaret Thatcher led the conservative movement to power in Britain, Pope John Paul II made a pilgrimage to Poland, and Deng Xiaoping began laying the groundwork for China’s market economy. Caryl writes that the counterrevolutionary events of 1979 may also offer insights into the future for “… the transformations of 1979 have themselves grown into decadent established orders, the excesses of which may now be inspiring new reactionary movements and counterrevolutions.” [%comments]
The Year the World Changed
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And I was born. Coincidence? Unlikely.
I was born too! No coincidence there either.
Israel and Egypt signed the peace accords.
It’s not quite 1066, but …
One would think that 1989 was more earth-shattering.
Start of the end of communism. Berlin Wall goes down. Tiananmen. Premier of the Simpsons…
I thought that the Iranian revolution and Thatcher were already reactionary counterrevolutions. So if there were to be a reactionary counterrevolution to the reactionary counterrevolution it would mean that the Taliban would be taking control in Iran (or a Shiite equivalent thereof) and absolute monarchy would return to England.
It’s not quite 1966, but ….
Well thank goodness someone has now finally identified something pivotal about the 1970s!!! I’ve been really jealous of all these people born in the 80s and 90s and the attention the millennials are getting.