[lbo-talk] John Nichols in "The Nation" on Hunter Thompson

Colin Brace cwb at lim.nl
Thu Feb 24 04:38:23 PST 2005


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At a time when many of his contemporaries were disappearing into a drug haze, or shouting silly "Smash-the-State" slogans, Thompson was exploring a more radical prospect. He wanted to combine "Woodstock vibrations, New Left activism, and basic Jeffersonian Democracy with strong echoes of the Boston Tea Party ethic" into what the writer-candidate referred to as "a blueprint for stomping the (conservative Vice President Spiro) Agnew mentality by its own rules -- with the vote, instead of the bomb; by seizing the power machinery and using it, instead of merely destroying it."

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Full text: http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1&pid=2214



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