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Abbie Hoffman — Part 5
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“said it. Said if you don't want to go to hell, you
gotta work. Right. Keep your nose clean. Postpone
pleasure. Put your money in the bank. Be serious.
Get ahead. John Calvin. Because they needed that.
Becatws Protestantism was tied in with the rights
of capitalism. And that's why they needed all those
ethics. To keep the people down on the farm. Keep
them doing dirty work. You gotta go to school if you
don't wanta do dirty work. What the h-~-- is dirty
work? Is that some kind of aristrocracy? Dirty work.
There's dirty work and there's clean work. In this
system, it's all dirty. The whole work is dirty
because people are selling their souls out. Well,
I'm with you. I dig your gold. But not your methods.
Like. I'll be with you after I get my degree. Ha!
Hal Degree!
"Degree is great. You can sit on its; you
can scribble notes on the back; you can frame it. Put
it on the wall. The only thing you can't do with it
is to make a revolution. And that is what is needed
in this country.
"And like it ain't gonna be all that serious
stuff like the left is putting dom. You imow,
sacrifices, guilt. Feel guilty. Be-- s---~. Feel
creative and dig your own beauty. Productivity which
has got nothing to do with work. Productivity is
something natural that flows out of human beings.
Self-actualizing. Creativity within us. It's
| natural. Organic. Develop it. So we're not. .
unhappy. It's called repression, huh? The Government's
in a repression. Oh, big repression. Tha take eight
. of ua-from all, like, different styles. You know, head
of the Black Fanther Party, two guys that they think
are head of SDS, but like anybody from SDS will tell you,
they ain't the heads of SDS .. . Davis and Hayden.
Head of the Antiwar Movement, head of the Yippies.
Put them all together and said you guys have got to
get together. You kmow. That's what Ike said just
before he died. He said don't mourn. Organize.
That's what he said. We listened to him. He is our
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