[lbo-talk] hippies (Re: WMT goes orgo)

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Wojtek Sokolowski" <sokol at jhu.edu>
>
>>Carl:
>>
>>That's a beautiful tribute, Ravi.  I don't understand the point of beating
>>up on hippies.  What's wrong with the world today is triumphal capitalism,
>>militarism, imperialism -- none of which can be ascribed to any delusions 
>>or
>>excesses of the hippies.
>
>[WS:] It is not beating up on hippies, Carl, but putting things in a
>perspective.  The hippies were, for the most part a US middle class
>phenomenon, and to a lesser extent European middle class one.

It appears mainly Europe is keeping the tradition alive now -- if, that is, 
Freetown Christiana is still viable, which isn't clear to me from the info 
available at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania>

Carl