By Jonah Raskin |
Near the end of his days as a cultural revolutionary, Abbie Hoffman explained, facetiously, that he was to blame for crime in the streets, kids acting out, and drug addiction. He was reacting to the ongoing assaults on the Sixties and the smears on his own personality.
Even before the decade of the 1960s ended, critics of the counterculture and the anti-war movement lambasted radicals, feminists, and left-wing ideologists for creating anarchy and fomenting chaos.
Over the past five decades, the culture wars with defenders of the Sixties on one side and detractors on the other have not abated. Americans are still scapegoating “The Sixties.”
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