Abbie Hoffman... a fine American who reminded many of what freedom is all about. "Revolution For The Hell of It", and "Steal This Book" provoked many of my younger years, and his words still resonate. What's interesting to think about is that this video was shot a few months BEFORE the '68 Democratic convention, and puts all of the Mayor Daley vs The Chicago Seven stuff in a bit of perspective. P.S. Eldredge Cleaver was also a Presidential candidate on the ballot that year.
♥️ you Abbie. I was 10 in '68 but when I saw you I knew you had it all figured out. How screwed up the world was, and how pointing that out with humor and joy was the only way to be.
El espíritu de lucha de Abbie Hoffman sigue en pie✊. One Love ✌️ Paz y Buen Rollito. Abbi Hoffman's fighting spirit is still alive✊. One Love ✌️ Peace and Good vibes.
No, he was egotistical douchebag and a self-hating Jew who didd't know about the real world. What is not noted is that he got a lot of his rebellion from his mentor Herbert Marcuse, who was a fascist-in-denial who sided with Germany during World War I.
@@minewheaties5029 How does being an egotistical douchebag make him uneducated or unintelligent? I am confused by your comment. I didn't speak to his personality. I never knew him personally.
@@Meme-zc4cw Even that video where he said "we are the second American Revolution" and "we're winning, Yippie" showed how big of an egomaniac he was. The Second American Revolution was just a fairytale.
I was there, I was with a group of Jesuit Bros. protesting the War listening to Allen Ginsberg and boom teargas was thrown into a peaceful demonstration, you couldn't even open your eyes. This was a police riot, they came in large city buses and took off their badges and name tags and started teargassing and beating everyone with their night sticks including businessmen walking down Michigan Ave that had nothing to do with the protest going on. You have to take all of this in context Martin Luther was assassinated in April, Robert Kennedy was assassinated June of 1968 and his last words "On to Chicago" people were already raw in Chicago and the Chicago 8 really didn't ignite this riot Mayor Daley did!
Hoffman even admits in this video that their plan was to get "the pigs" beating the shit out of one another- in other words, to create chaos. They made posters calling on demonstrators to "bring the war home," ffs! Even Rubin admitted in the '80s they were guilty. Hoffman was just a commie traitor.
I was named after Abbie Hoffman. It's kinda funny when my parents told that when I was little, because I was: "You name named me after a guy?!" lol! I'm fine with it now and I am totally proud of being named after someone so extordinary and fighting in something he believed in like Abbie. VIVA LA VIDA ABBIE HOFFMAN!
Yippies were very rebellious people. They were the young generation who fought the entire judicial system and restrictive society rules and rergulations. They desired to be "free" people.
"There was this man, given a little talk, and for some reason, he was wearin an american flag for a shirt, and he liked to say the F-word, a lot, F this and F that, and every time he said the F-word, people for some reason, well, they'd cheer" -Forest Gump on Abbie Hoffman
Abbie was brilliant but far from perfect, he had a lot of serious faults, he was an ego-maniac and by his own admission a clown, and way but Forest Gump is probably the most reactionary piece of shit movie ever made save Gone With the Wind. Its almost a truism that anybody or thing insulted by that piece of overhyped establishment propaganda has social value while the ideas it puts on a pedestal are shit.
We just gave new generations a model to follow the best they can. Most did not and now there have been two me-generations caring less about having a peaceful society like the 60s . The reality is quite the opposite with the young people today talking a lot while knowing very little. A generation like the 60s will come again to mellow out society.
So sad this dude killed himself. He seemed so happy back then, but in his newer videos he seemed defeated & tired. I'm sure it was a peaceful death--100 phenobarbitals down the hatch. R.I.P. in peace.
he had such a boston accent back then. i just watched this after watching a speech he gave toward the end of his life in which he sounded very new york jewish.
I was a cop and a viet nam vet. The problem with these people is that they did not understand that we were smarter and meaner than they could understand.
Of course not. Yippies were idiots. If you read 'Steal This Book' the whole thing is a how-to guide on living off of capitalist society as a parasite- how to shoplift, how to get free furnishings, how to get free flights, free phone calls. The only advice on growing stuff is how to grow dope- no advice on how to grow your own food, how to start a farm or a garden, how to actually live off-grid and start a new society completely separate from the capitalist mainstream. This movement was destined to fail. Hoffman in this video sits there talking crap about "pigs in suits," but they were the ones making all the food and consumer goods he and his mates were stealing. Who made that drink of his, and the bottle it was in? Which poor schmuck cut their foot on the glass after he showed off his little bit of 'theatre?' The whole thing was so fucking masturbatory.
When did the conversation about "natural selection within popular culture" and getting laid become the topic? I thought the idea was to end the war in Vietnam and change the direction of the Military Industrial Complex? How successful were they in that regard? Compare him to an individual like Martin Luther King whose movement has certainly borne fruit. I don't recall his message being watered down. I guess natural selection removed Abbie Hoffman from the planet also?
A genuine piece of American History here. What is amazing is that this was recorded a few months before the '68 Democratic convention, and all of the Chicago Seven crap that came out after. "Steal This Book" and "Revolution For the Hell of It" were two of the books that touched my youthful soul.
@gjc82071 @HomespunLace And, just imagine the level of organization that could have been attained in the 60's, if the protesters had internet, cell phones, blackberries, etc. Now that people DO have that, the will is gone. i agree we should get together all of us now that we have the MEANS
boredpunks Thanks man! Saw it last week. It was pretty good. I never knew how sad his life was though, like how he couldn't tell his son that he was his father.
My favorite Abbie Hoffman moment was when Pete Townshend hit him off the stage with the head of his guitar in the back of his neck like a bayonet in the at Woodstock.
@gjc82071 Hi. Yes, I think that certain aspects of the 60s should return. The point I made about your comment was a lot about the materialism and greed of today, hindering anyone's attempt to spearhead a vital movement. Yet, something can and should be done and very soon. Politics will never save us. Good people rising up, taking action, with kindness and results, will. I certainly do not like the radical part of the 60s.
It's unfortunate that Abbie couldn't transcend his own limitations as he may have been very effective with the Occupy Movements. Had he only held out a while longer.. A more reflective and older Hoffman can be seen here the year before he killed himself. ua-cam.com/video/nLRBCxuaohw/v-deo.html
I don’t necessarily agree with everything he says, but I do appreciate his intellect. Political activists nowadays aren’t intelligent in the slightest.
Regarding Hoffman... it's not what he say's it's what he does... to make his point hoffman smashes a beer bottle, does his little dance/rant and then throws the broken glass on the ground for some unsuspecting child or whomever to step on, sit on, and get cut up bad, or worse... For all his talk about revolution, Hoffman was a shallow self centered minor character...
The movement died because young people starting around 76 did not care and were totally out of touch by 1980. Has not changed since except for the Anonymous and Occupy movement.
I just began reading 'Steal This Book' and it is hilarious!!! He is a total crackpot rabblerouser! I had to see the guy in action. If he did have a political agenda, which it appears that he did, it has been severely undermined by his thoughts, actions, and speech.
Right, well isn't that what the times were about?? Being a bit crazy like rowan and martin....he had fun, alot more fun than the other "serious" protesters....the yipies were all about changin the world and ENJOYINg doing so!
They maybe clownish commies, but they were never boring. Better than the typical boring protest were you had rambling speeches by angry people, marching through the streets, chanting rhymes, carrying signs.
Most of the leaders of the counterculture were about 10 years older. Hayden, Ruben, Hoffman, hell all of the Chicago 7 were 30. It is not because they were in it for sex, its because they were a little older, educated and new how to lead a movement. It is tough for a 20 year old to organize and lead, but by 30 they have enough life experience to know what it takes.
@TheCarambah I see you've learned to cut and paste from your betters. Plagiarism is probably as close to creativity as you'll ever get. However as I told you before education is important.
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Just watched the trial of the Chicago 7. Perfect timing. history seems to be repeating
Exactly there's dirty animals destroying property in the streets again
SEEMS to be repeating itself.. IT ALWAYS HAS AND WILL.. sad ppl still don't know this...
Abbie Hoffman... a fine American who reminded many of what freedom is all about.
"Revolution For The Hell of It", and "Steal This Book" provoked many of my younger years, and his words still resonate.
What's interesting to think about is that this video was shot a few months BEFORE the '68 Democratic convention, and puts all of the Mayor Daley vs The Chicago Seven stuff in a bit of perspective.
P.S. Eldredge Cleaver was also a Presidential candidate on the ballot that year.
♥️ you Abbie. I was 10 in '68 but when I saw you I knew you had it all figured out. How screwed up the world was, and how pointing that out with humor and joy was the only way to be.
El espíritu de lucha de Abbie Hoffman sigue en pie✊. One Love ✌️ Paz y Buen Rollito.
Abbi Hoffman's fighting spirit is still alive✊. One Love ✌️ Peace and Good vibes.
We desperately need an Abbie Hoffman TODAY!!
ua-cam.com/video/C-C2RZBqxtU/v-deo.html
Any of us has the potential
YES PLEASE!!!
There's lots of modern day Abbie Hoffman's behind bars, and those who have "died in mysterious circumstances"
huwfylt Vaughn Benjamin is one of the recent “died by mysterious circumstances” sad to witness... just represents that what he was teaching is true...
Hoffman is a VERY educated young man. He knew exactly what he was talking about, some may just not like his delivery or message.
No, he was egotistical douchebag and a self-hating Jew who didd't know about the real world. What is not noted is that he got a lot of his rebellion from his mentor Herbert Marcuse, who was a fascist-in-denial who sided with Germany during World War I.
@@minewheaties5029 How does being an egotistical douchebag make him uneducated or unintelligent? I am confused by your comment. I didn't speak to his personality. I never knew him personally.
@@Meme-zc4cw Even that video where he said "we are the second American Revolution" and "we're winning, Yippie" showed how big of an egomaniac he was. The Second American Revolution was just a fairytale.
I was there, I was with a group of Jesuit Bros. protesting the War listening to Allen Ginsberg and boom teargas was thrown into a peaceful demonstration, you couldn't even open your eyes. This was a police riot, they came in large city buses and took off their badges and name tags and started teargassing and beating everyone with their night sticks including businessmen walking down Michigan Ave that had nothing to do with the protest going on. You have to take all of this in context Martin Luther was assassinated in April, Robert Kennedy was assassinated June of 1968 and his last words "On to Chicago" people were already raw in Chicago and the Chicago 8 really didn't ignite this riot Mayor Daley did!
Hoffman even admits in this video that their plan was to get "the pigs" beating the shit out of one another- in other words, to create chaos. They made posters calling on demonstrators to "bring the war home," ffs! Even Rubin admitted in the '80s they were guilty. Hoffman was just a commie traitor.
You might put your memories aside and actually consider that Hoffman is admitting his intent to incite a riot, which thus also becomes "context."
m romeyn Daily was a scumbag.
I love Jesuits. :)
I was named after Abbie Hoffman. It's kinda funny when my parents told that when I was little, because I was: "You name named me after a guy?!" lol! I'm fine with it now and I am totally proud of being named after someone so extordinary and fighting in something he believed in like Abbie.
VIVA LA VIDA ABBIE HOFFMAN!
Abbie was and is no hero just a punk kid from ny I knew abbie he was just a street kid no hero
@@rabbitt83 he accomplished more in one day than your entire lifetime
he was a great man. crazy, but a great man. thank you for putting this up for America to see. It really teaches the world. Also helped my project! ^_^
He was a ny street Jew e we Ho knew how to con the press. No tv network not a great guy
Who’s here after watching The Trail of Chicago 7?
That movie was insanely good
We need another Abby Hoffman for today.
Yippies were very rebellious people. They were the young generation who fought the entire judicial system and restrictive society rules and rergulations. They desired to be "free" people.
"There was this man, given a little talk, and for some reason, he was wearin an american flag for a shirt, and he liked to say the F-word, a lot, F this and F that, and every time he said the F-word, people for some reason, well, they'd cheer"
-Forest Gump on Abbie Hoffman
Abbie was brilliant but far from perfect, he had a lot of serious faults, he was an ego-maniac and by his own admission a clown, and way but Forest Gump is probably the most reactionary piece of shit movie ever made save Gone With the Wind. Its almost a truism that anybody or thing insulted by that piece of overhyped establishment propaganda has social value while the ideas it puts on a pedestal are shit.
@@mattharvey4770 This.
Excellent clip. Best I have ever seen of him.
Abbie's sensational. Half of the comments here make me think that they showed this video at some right-wing survivalist compound in Utah.
And these guys are now running the country...
No, they are certainly not! Remember the Young Republicans?
Damn, after watching this clip on UA-cam, Sacha nailed the role of Abbie!
I thought the 60s people were going to be in power and free us by now...
+James Hightower Um, they ARE in power.
Tom Hayden was a senator
They got too high.
We just gave new generations a model to follow the best they can. Most did not and now there have been two me-generations caring less about having a peaceful society like the 60s . The reality is quite the opposite with the young people today talking a lot while knowing very little. A generation like the 60s will come again to mellow out society.
Class divides are more real than generational divides.
Please subtitle in Castellano. Thank
thanks for the archives
"never worry, only mothers worry"
love the end
It suddenly struck me as I was watching and listening to that chick at the end of the clip:
A year later the Manson murders would be in the news.
Is anyone here from October 18th, 2020 watching this after watching the Trial of the Chicago 7 on Netflix?
👋
So sad this dude killed himself. He seemed so happy back then, but in his newer videos he seemed defeated & tired. I'm sure it was a peaceful death--100 phenobarbitals down the hatch. R.I.P. in peace.
He was on psych meds. Big Pharma killing us all off. 🖕🏼
What a time that was in our history!
he had such a boston accent back then. i just watched this after watching a speech he gave toward the end of his life in which he sounded very new york jewish.
What's the full video this is from?
I want to know, did he go to the commune?
I was a cop and a viet nam vet. The problem with these people is that they did not understand that we were smarter and meaner than they could understand.
Meaner, yes. I don't know about smarter.
Who's we?
does anyone have a transcript of this video?
Nothing is worse than your girlfriend asking you about something tomorrow when you're on LSD... That giant deep breath was a dead giveaway
It's great to be reminded that FUN once existed.
Nobody's got any footage of the pig inauguration on the National Mall?
Abbie had it right! wish he was around now. Yippie!!
Did he pick up those pieces of broken glass?
Of course not. Yippies were idiots. If you read 'Steal This Book' the whole thing is a how-to guide on living off of capitalist society as a parasite- how to shoplift, how to get free furnishings, how to get free flights, free phone calls. The only advice on growing stuff is how to grow dope- no advice on how to grow your own food, how to start a farm or a garden, how to actually live off-grid and start a new society completely separate from the capitalist mainstream. This movement was destined to fail. Hoffman in this video sits there talking crap about "pigs in suits," but they were the ones making all the food and consumer goods he and his mates were stealing. Who made that drink of his, and the bottle it was in? Which poor schmuck cut their foot on the glass after he showed off his little bit of 'theatre?' The whole thing was so fucking masturbatory.
it was all about how to start a new, uh, uh.....you've been drinking again, hah?...I can tell
brilliantine, libertine...libations
it didn't fail, cuz me and many others my age still practice yippie tactics
Glad to know. I¨ll be observant on how it turns out.
Wow
That's Jorma K. And Grace appears too.
They made protests fun.
Trump judge confrontational yippie
amazing footage .. "have the machine stumble" .. BURN ONE
"Banana peels".
When did the conversation about "natural selection within popular culture" and getting laid become the topic? I thought the idea was to end the war in Vietnam and change the direction of the Military Industrial Complex? How successful were they in that regard? Compare him to an individual like Martin Luther King whose movement has certainly borne fruit. I don't recall his message being watered down. I guess natural selection removed Abbie Hoffman from the planet also?
Abbie Hoffman was a great man, although I can't help but think he was wrong-headed about certain things. Still, we agree more than we disagree.
nice to see sb as stoned as this
there isn t any less or MORE truth in this as in anything ELSE you see
Blessed Be
Hoffman_&_Rubin were very able and influential in moving America FORWARD.
This is great! Thanks
Omg I wasn’t expecting his Worcester accent 💀
"Th' National Gahd..."
Who is the girl in the video
FIND THE EVENT ON FACEBOOK!!
A genuine piece of American History here.
What is amazing is that this was recorded a few months before the '68 Democratic convention, and all of the Chicago Seven crap that came out after.
"Steal This Book" and "Revolution For the Hell of It" were two of the books that touched my youthful soul.
He completely revised demonstrations and youth politics.
@gjc82071 @HomespunLace And, just imagine the level of organization that could have been attained in the 60's, if the protesters had internet, cell phones, blackberries, etc. Now that people DO have that, the will is gone.
i agree
we should get together all of us
now that we have the MEANS
Soon to be a major motion picture!!!!!
damn you predicted it
lol. that pretty much sums it up.
The VC knew with a home front culture like this, victory was assured.
Well yeah, turns out lots of Americans didn't want to kill and die for nonsense. Better a bum than a murderer.
Abbie seems like an interesting dude. Can someone explain what he did in his career?
there's a cool film called Steal This Movie (a play off his book Steal This Book) that's about his life
boredpunks
Thanks man! Saw it last week. It was pretty good. I never knew how sad his life was though, like how he couldn't tell his son that he was his father.
Fuck off, nationalist crybaby.
@globodog At my age it's an inevitable part of a future visit to my doctor, soon, real soon.
where did you get this video source? I would like to use it for a project
My favorite Abbie Hoffman moment was when Pete Townshend hit him off the stage with the head of his guitar in the back of his neck like a bayonet in the at Woodstock.
@gjc82071 Hi. Yes, I think that certain aspects of the 60s should return. The point I made about your comment was a lot about the materialism and greed of today, hindering anyone's attempt to spearhead a vital movement. Yet, something can and should be done and very soon. Politics will never save us. Good people rising up, taking action, with kindness and results, will. I certainly do not like the radical part of the 60s.
Was Abbie hitting on that guy?
Abbie Hoffman - Junkie Season...Great song about Abbie ;3
@BonoExplosion whats the problem with that???
It's unfortunate that Abbie couldn't transcend his own limitations as he may have been very effective with the Occupy Movements. Had he only held out a while longer..
A more reflective and older Hoffman can be seen here the year before he killed himself. ua-cam.com/video/nLRBCxuaohw/v-deo.html
I don’t necessarily agree with everything he says, but I do appreciate his intellect. Political activists nowadays aren’t intelligent in the slightest.
i love america , i hate our govrnment, i ama hippie born too late
@HomespunLace
I agree with you
TOTALLY
Lsd with dmso lol wow
They're all stoned out of their MIND. hahhaha!
Can anybody tell me the source of this footage?
man all i can think about is how he broke that glass and the dude is barefoot!
"I'm not worried about Chicago at all, of course not"
REV BUD GREEN IS THE NEW ABBIE HOFFMAN
I wish the trial of the 7 had been more accurate not that Aaron Sorkin BS
Regarding Hoffman... it's not what he say's it's what he does... to make his point hoffman smashes a beer bottle, does his little dance/rant and then throws the broken glass on the ground for some unsuspecting child or whomever to step on, sit on, and get cut up bad, or worse... For all his talk about revolution, Hoffman was a shallow self centered minor character...
i'm sorry i didn't see the part where he just left it there... do you think its still there?
how do you know he didn't pick it up when the video was over mr. omniscient?
@znubzz188 Yeah you see you need to use more words when you're communicating with the voices outside your head.
We need more people like this man.
There are a few good ones around today: Adam Kokesh, Cindy Sheehan, Kucinich....pete seeger just left us
The movement died because young people starting around 76 did not care and were totally out of touch by 1980. Has not changed since except for the Anonymous and Occupy movement.
@gjc82071 excellent opinions
Spiking people is always evil.
anybody else see the shirt hes wearing @0:12
I just began reading 'Steal This Book' and it is hilarious!!! He is a total crackpot rabblerouser! I had to see the guy in action. If he did have a political agenda, which it appears that he did, it has been severely undermined by his thoughts, actions, and speech.
Right, well isn't that what the times were about?? Being a bit crazy like rowan and martin....he had fun, alot more fun than the other "serious" protesters....the yipies were all about changin the world and ENJOYINg doing so!
idk why
Abbie was genius.
Didn't Hoffman off himself?
@znubzz188 You're confused.
only mothers worry...
They maybe clownish commies, but they were never boring. Better than the typical boring protest were you had rambling speeches by angry people, marching through the streets, chanting rhymes, carrying signs.
2:15 hah isnt that grace slick!
@johnross12 Yeah the best path for you is probably obedience.
Hoffman was in it for the poontang....he was ten years or more older than the kids he hung around
Weird
But fun lol
Most of the leaders of the counterculture were about 10 years older. Hayden, Ruben, Hoffman, hell all of the Chicago 7 were 30. It is not because they were in it for sex, its because they were a little older, educated and new how to lead a movement. It is tough for a 20 year old to organize and lead, but by 30 they have enough life experience to know what it takes.
My thoughts exactly.
Anyone know who the interviewer is?
Proof the "F" word DID exist in 1968. *grin*
....now has a seat in the Obama administration......
3:00
0:41 True revolutionary
True ny hippie
EWWWW
@ioriorioriorio uhm, nope.
@TheCarambah I see you've learned to cut and paste from your betters. Plagiarism is probably as close to creativity as you'll ever get. However as I told you before education is important.
@notyetajedi65 amen