The 1968 movements brought to the squares of the whole world their exempla virtutis,  in the ancient ethic and civic sense of the phrase Everywhere the names were chanted and images raised of Ho Chi Minh and general Giap, the commanders of the Vietnamese war, of Che Guevara and Malcolm X, figures who had paid with their lives the radicalism of their political choices, of Mao Tse Tung and Lin Piao, protagonists of a revolution that seemed different from every other and open to every result