A Brief History of the American Left

Many a student revolutionary who was privately frightened out of his wits by the hippy counterculture discovered with great fascination that pl in its scary chinese fashion, offered a counter culture. The pelers gave up cigarettes. These were not potheads. Their look may have been androidal, but at least they weren't fashionable. Their attitude toward ordinary working people was laughably paternalistic, but they did at least pretend to sympathy,. which was better than some of the anti pellers managed to do. And because of the machine gun efficiency of their leninous discipline, plus the allure of their ghastly chinese rhetoric, and the reassurance that came from their stodgy cultural