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Memorandum for Mr, W. C. Sullivan BOOK REVIEW "REVOLUTION FOR THE HELL OF IT" BY ABBIE HOFFMAN (ALIAS “FREE") 100 -449923 Speaking of the Youth International Party (YIP) philosophy, Hoffman says: "Clarity is not one of our goals. Pn we Bas ent is w4 +4 ah tha at we b Confusion is mightier than the sword! .. . We have totally @estroyed words and replaced them with ‘doing'--action becomes the only reality ... If the straight world understood all this (obscene), it would render us impotent, because understanding is the first step to control and control is the secret to our extinction," Hoffman is obsessed with the idea of developing what he calls "a free America," which he says will be brought about by ature eee phn tt mbit ar ewele ame af hin Lan amita destroying pevypes vy and 001i S01 ig WOrs ; yet VHS Wh MAD 24YVUL A UO mottoes is "Make Love, Not War." He claims he is not interested in whether someone is for or against the Yippie movement so long as each person Goes bis thing’ >the thing he wants most in life to do, be it “punching a marshal, jumping a wall, doing a dance, singing a song, painting or blowing up a building." Insisting that the Yippies are not part of the New Left, Hoffman makes derogatory remarks about the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the National Mobilization Committee (NMC). He claims to have outgrown the New Left in that disciples of that movement are for sacrifice, dedication, and responsibility and are filled with anger, frustration, and guilt, whereas he and his followers believe in having fun and doing only what they want to do, Hoffman's description of the March on the Pentagon was told through the haze of an LSD trip and consists of nothing but obscene descriptions of the actions of the demonstrators id the conflict between them and the authorities. About the Chicago demonstrations during the Democratic National Convention in August, 1968, which Hoffman calls "The Perfect Mess," he says: I can only "relate to Chicago as a personal anarchist, a * revolutionary artist." He offered the opinion that had the demonstrations lasted another week "We would have gotten the cops to assassinate Humphrey, We had won the Battle of Chicago. I knew we had smashed the Democrats’ chances and destroyed the two-party system in this country and perhaps with it electoral politics," PR PNET RRR EAR AR RO TE ome neta me ee my