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ake Pe ee FD-350 (Fiev. 7-16-63} ~ at (Mount Clipping in Space Below) a , - REVOLUTION: THE HIGHEST TRIP OF THEM ALL REVOLUTION FOR THE HELL OF IT By Free The Dial Press Hard bound, $4.95 Paper $1.95 Ll LAWR ENCE LIPTON Raa ot ‘Ina series of self- propounded questions, Abbie Hoffman, author of this book and self-appointed anonymous non- leader of the non- existent Yippies (this by his own description), has this tosay about the most frequently propounded question’ concerning the Youth In- ternational Party (YIP); QUESTION: Do you consider yourself politically relevant? ANSWER: No, QUESTION: is that the best answer you can think of? ANSWER: Well, when you ask a question like that you trigger offumpteen responses in my head, I believe in the politics of ecs- tacy, - . QUESTION: Can you explain that a2 little more? ANSWER: No, but I ean touch it, Ican smell it, Ican even dance it, I can even fight it, Politics ts to me the way somebody lives his life, Not what they vote for or sup- port or even believe In, I'm more interested In art than politics but, well, See, we are all caught ina word box, I find it difficult to make these kinds of divisions, Northrop, in MEETING OF EAST AND WEST, said,*Life is an un- differentiated aesthetic continu- um,” Let me say that the Viet- cong attacking the U, $, Embassy in Saigon is a work ofart, I guess T [ike revolutionary art, QUESTION: This word game, as you call it, Doesn't that pre- sent problems in conveying what you want to say? ANSWER: Yes, but not in what T want to do, Let me say... Did you hear Andy Warhol talk? “QUESTION: Yes, or at least I think It was him, ‘ANSWER: Well, I would Ilke to combine his style and that of Castro’s, Warhol understands modern media, Castro has a pas- sion for social change, It’s not easy. One's 2 fag and the (other is the epitome of virility, ff was forced to make a choice I would choose Castro, but right now in this period of change inthe coun- try the styles of the two can be blended, It?s not guerrilla war- fare but, well, maybe a goodterm is monkey warfare, If the coun- try becomes more repressive we must become Castros, If it be- comes more tolerant we must be- come Warhols. As I write these lines Abbie Hoffman is bringing a big damage sult, with ACLU backing, against the District of Columbia fuzz who busted him Oct, 4 for wearing a shirt made gut of an American flag. His complaintis that against his will the D.C. police took 2 sample of his blood in jail and did it with anondisposable needle which gave him @ hepatitis infec- tion and permanent damage tohis liver, I remember his perpetual state of REVOLUTIONARY HIGH (yes, there {s no better name for it, a high, much like a dope high) when he was doing his thing in Chicago last August, and it grieves me to think of Abbie brought to a terrible LOW Lllke the hepatitis low, than which there is no going lower or more turned off, It's the nearest thing I can think of to a poetic injustice. Of all the facets of the current multidimensional world revolu- tion the most strikingly new and original is the Yippie— what shail I call it? since words, names, are ifrelevant in this ease and only acts can define or even name it, Picture Abbie laughing his holy fool head off as the Cnicago Daley pigs (or was it the feds, I forgot, but what the hell is the difference”) were whaling the hell out ofhim auring an “interrogation”, Picture ie in a goofy disguise, like some « (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) os Angeles Free ress Angeles, Calif. Date: ‘s 10/69 Edition: Author: Lawrence Lipto: Editor; Art Kunkin "Revolution; the Highest Trip Oo: Them Ali" Chorocter; ARL or Clasalfication: Submitting Office: Los Ange (L] Being Investigated