tergiversation/Nietzsche

[Michael Pugliese]

The real action in the YAF took place in 1968-70, when the group split into
conservative and libertarian wings. At the YAF national convention in St.
Louis in '69, the libertarians shocked the conservatives by burning their
draft cards and shouting "Laissez Faire! Laissez Faire!" The conservatives
responded with "Lazy Fairies! Lazy Fairies!" Karl Hess, symbolic leader of
the lib-wing and former Goldwater speechwriter, challenged William F.
Buckley to a debate, which the crypto-Nazi declined. I believe some of the
dissident YAFers went on to start the Libertarian Party, but that wing of
politics spread so far out that I couldn't really say.

DP

 Cf. "A Generation Divided, The New Left, The New Right and the 60's, " by
Rebecca Klatch, in pb. from U.C. Press, 2000. Focuses on SDS and YAF.

Michael Pugliese

P.S. To Charles, don't have the title handy, but in the Nietzsche section of
my local indie bookstore is a book on his anti-semitic sister and her
husband who founded that colony of Germans in S. America. A book I grapple
with every once in a while is, "Nietzsche's Corps/e, Aesthetics, Politics,
Prophesy, Or, The Spectacular Technoculture of Everyday Life, " by Geoff
White from Duke Univ. Press. Good blurb from Stanley Corngold, a
Shakespeare(?) lit critter. This Geoff White guy knows his Gramsci,
Foucault, Althusser, Negri and even quotes from The Mekons and Leonard
Cohen!