Though back then you also had a more positive balance of powers with the USSR at its peak and socialist China helping a ton with the global South and East.
Today NATO powers are seemingly reaching beyond their limits, but 3 decades of global capitalist counter revolution and brainwashing also play a very negative role for revolutions to happen. Things change though, and the scale of power tipping further and further away from the West is a good thing for change to happen.
Wow that's some insane engineering