A good chunk of them yeah. I think this take is overstated on the left because of the animosity between traditional Marxist organizations and the New Left at the time. Many of them in their old age have gone haywire, but there are quiet a number that never gave up on their principles. Like with everyone else, those tend to be the ones that weren't able to ride the gravy chain of privatization through the ensuing decades.
Nowadays the people who use that term for themselves are rarely involved in any serious counterculture movement, but instead younger people pining after a time they never experienced. If you check their social spaces, the politics can be pretty good when it comes up. E.g. anticapitalist takes are common in /ActualHippies.
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Many of them yeah but there are a few who stayed real hippies.
A good chunk of them yeah. I think this take is overstated on the left because of the animosity between traditional Marxist organizations and the New Left at the time. Many of them in their old age have gone haywire, but there are quiet a number that never gave up on their principles. Like with everyone else, those tend to be the ones that weren't able to ride the gravy chain of privatization through the ensuing decades.
Nowadays the people who use that term for themselves are rarely involved in any serious counterculture movement, but instead younger people pining after a time they never experienced. If you check their social spaces, the politics can be pretty good when it comes up. E.g. anticapitalist takes are common in /ActualHippies.