Image Pop-UpAbbie Hoffman and the Chicago Seven Abbie Hoffman
was a countercultural leader whose commitment to radical
politics spanned the civil rights, antiwar, and environmentalist
movements. When the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
expelled all whites in 1964, Hoffman moved into the hippie
movement, seeing the counterculture as an arena for political
change. He pioneered the idea that experimental use of sex,
drugs, clothing, and communal living were revolutionary
activities. Hoffman, who was born in a middle-class Jewish
family in Worcester, Massachusetts, and graduated from Brandeis
University, was influenced by both Marshall McLuhan and Herbert
Marcuse. His political career demonstrated his... (The entire
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