I think this old adage comes from the 60's flower power hippie to 80's Reaganite capitalist pipeline. I'm so-so on the hippies being a radical movement, I mean they were anti-war and supported black liberation but they all grew up to be shitheads come the 80's. Anyway like others in the thread have said, as they amassed wealth and began owning land their values shifted to align with capitalism because that's where their new class interests were. This doesn't apply to young people today as the vast majority of us have no real prospect of joining the capitalist class.
yeah turns out that a movement whose #1 priority was avoiding getting drafted so they could keep smoking weed and dropping acid didn't have the most ideologically disciplined members. don't get me wrong weed and acid is fun and based and I'm generally sympathetic to hippies, but they never had the theory or the anti-capitalist critiques like the Panthers or even SNCC. It was more of a cultural movement than anything else, and once the Vietnam war was over a lot of them didn't have a reason to keep protesting.
I think this old adage comes from the 60's flower power hippie to 80's Reaganite capitalist pipeline. I'm so-so on the hippies being a radical movement, I mean they were anti-war and supported black liberation but they all grew up to be shitheads come the 80's. Anyway like others in the thread have said, as they amassed wealth and began owning land their values shifted to align with capitalism because that's where their new class interests were. This doesn't apply to young people today as the vast majority of us have no real prospect of joining the capitalist class.
yeah turns out that a movement whose #1 priority was avoiding getting drafted so they could keep smoking weed and dropping acid didn't have the most ideologically disciplined members. don't get me wrong weed and acid is fun and based and I'm generally sympathetic to hippies, but they never had the theory or the anti-capitalist critiques like the Panthers or even SNCC. It was more of a cultural movement than anything else, and once the Vietnam war was over a lot of them didn't have a reason to keep protesting.