Comments on: Arlo Guthrie sings

By: bowser

bowser — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:30:20 +0000

WorldCom, Enron, Madoff, etc., make fools of them every day, and they still think they’ve got it figured.

By: ER

ER — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:58:18 +0000

“This Machine Kills Fascists”

(Painted on Woody Guthtrie’s guitar.)

By: ER

ER — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:00:29 +0000

Libertarians are anarchists with property.

By: alcaray

alcaray — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:46:54 +0000

Fearing the authorities doesn’t make you a libertarian. Or maybe it does? Is that the common thread?

By: bowser

bowser — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:31:44 +0000

Well, you did say “all the real hippies”, which gave me a bit of an opening.

By: TB

TB — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:40:53 +0000

I was talking about Arlo, not Woody.

By: bowser

bowser — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:25:33 +0000

Woody Guthrie: “Notwithstanding Guthrie’s later claim that “the best thing that I did in 1936 was to sign up with the Communist Party,”[18] he was never a member of the Party. He was noted as a fellow traveler—an outsider who agreed with the platform of the party while not subject to party discipline.[19] Guthrie requested to write a column for the Communist newspaper, The Daily Worker. The column, titled “Woody Sez”, appeared a total of 174 times from May 1939 to January 1940. “Woody Sez” was not explicitly political, but was about current events as observed by Guthrie.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie

Technically not a “hippie”, maybe, but certainly a precursor. Maybe a hippy libertarian of the collectivist variety. Most of the “hippies” I knew were collectivist, certainly not libertarian. They wanted their food stamps.

But ya calls ‘em as ya sees them, don’t you.

By: Jody

Jody — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:25:01 +0000