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Abbie Hoffman — Part 5

234 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Mar 23, 1969 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 234 pages OCR'd
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Pere ba ta IP 100-17576 13 “said it. Said if you don't want to go to hell, you gotta work. Right. Keep your nose clean. Postpone pleasure. Put your money in the bank. Be serious. Get ahead. John Calvin. Because they needed that. Becatws Protestantism was tied in with the rights of capitalism. And that's why they needed all those ethics. To keep the people down on the farm. Keep them doing dirty work. You gotta go to school if you don't wanta do dirty work. What the h-~-- is dirty work? Is that some kind of aristrocracy? Dirty work. There's dirty work and there's clean work. In this system, it's all dirty. The whole work is dirty because people are selling their souls out. Well, I'm with you. I dig your gold. But not your methods. Like. I'll be with you after I get my degree. Ha! Hal Degree! "Degree is great. You can sit on its; you can scribble notes on the back; you can frame it. Put it on the wall. The only thing you can't do with it is to make a revolution. And that is what is needed in this country. "And like it ain't gonna be all that serious stuff like the left is putting dom. You imow, sacrifices, guilt. Feel guilty. Be-- s---~. Feel creative and dig your own beauty. Productivity which has got nothing to do with work. Productivity is something natural that flows out of human beings. Self-actualizing. Creativity within us. It's | natural. Organic. Develop it. So we're not. . unhappy. It's called repression, huh? The Government's in a repression. Oh, big repression. Tha take eight . of ua-from all, like, different styles. You know, head of the Black Fanther Party, two guys that they think are head of SDS, but like anybody from SDS will tell you, they ain't the heads of SDS .. . Davis and Hayden. Head of the Antiwar Movement, head of the Yippies. Put them all together and said you guys have got to get together. You kmow. That's what Ike said just before he died. He said don't mourn. Organize. That's what he said. We listened to him. He is our -28—
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