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NY 100-161445 a | "tl was once in the New Left, but I outgrew it...The nds Left masturbates continuously, because it is essentially rooted . in an academic tradition...Those papers that claim to be oe accurate, i.e., The New York Times, The Village Voice, Ramparts, The Nation, Commentary, that whole academic word scene is a total bore. In the end they probably distort things more than the Daily News'." Lo, "ABBIE now prefers theater to politics. "Drama is i anything you can get away with' he writes. ‘Stokely yelling "Hell no, we won't go“, that was drama, not explanation. The point is nobody gives a (bleep) anymore about troop strength, ° i escalation, crying over napaln.' ' i - f- "Between the pratfalls, put-ons and fraternal hotfoots { for the New Left, ABBIE seems to intend this volume as a serious. manifesto for the growing counter-culture of mind drugs, rock 4 bands, sexual freedom, mixed media communes, Free Stores, zz astrology, colorful costumes and casual nudity. a - "If I understand ABBIE correctly, there are three -# essential planks in the Yippie platform. bne is street ; theater, satire, confrontations, put-ons, and general freakiness he calls 'monkey warfare'. Its purpose is to get on television to communicate an alternative life-style to the global village of the young. ABBIE considers youth as a distinct social class, a new, surrogate proletariat. “Second, ABBIE stands for mind-expanding drugs, sex, freedom, games, anything that is pleasurable. This is his ‘politics of ecstay'. b "And last, he is in favor of panhandling, stealing, hustling, anything that displays contempt for the 'propert fetish'. ABBIE is for free everything (especially toilets and advocates the sbolition of money. "This does not seem to be quite the platform to “win the legendary minds and hearts of the American people. I'm not even sure that it would win the minds and hearts of a majority of teeny-boppers. I fear, in fact, that it is a recipe for private amusement and public catastrophe. It does not speak at all to the needs of the propertyless--the whites of Appalechia, or Indians on reservations in South Dakota, or Mexican and Filippino farm workers in California, or Negro parents trying to win community control in Ocean Hill-Brownsvilie. t does not recognize the fact that 40 million other Americans ee HER eR RT etme care Om so