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NY 100-161445 "Decline of Radicalism, which was reviewed here yesterday, 4s about community, too, ‘the American idea and institution - of community.' "You would not be too far wrong if you said they approached the subject from diametrically opposite points of view, Dr. Boorstin being an intellectual Spiro Agnew and Abbie Hoffman a political dadaist. Neither would feel comfortable in the other's community. "The trouble is that Abbie Hoffman doesn't smoke-- at least not Winstons. He is writing about ‘a generation that may be growing disdainful of brand loyalties and store ; images.' He is, in fact, ‘a cultural revolutionary, ' searching for a new way to integrate his own ‘ego trip with a sense of a community, with a concept of the "we,"’ and his loyalty is 3 7 not to Dr. Boorstin's brands. "When you get right down to it,' Abbie writes, ‘we are guilty of being members of a vast conspiracy. A conspiracy pitted against the war in Vietnam and the govern- ment that still perpetuates that war, against the oppression of black communities, against the harassment of our cultural revolution, against an educational system that seems only to channel us into a society we see as corrupt and impersonal, i+ against the growing police state, and finally against the tl dehumanizing work roles that a capitalist economic system ~~ demands. v "twhat we are for, quite, simply, 18 a total revolution. _ _ we are for a society in which the people directly decide and control the decisions that affect their lives. We are for -—— people 's powaror as one of our brothers in Berkeley put it, ‘soulful socialism"....Revolution 4s more than digging rock or turning on. The revolution is about coming together in a struggle for change.' 5] ’. .