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Very strong. Lots of overlap. Choosing voice over exit is circumstantial, but both represent defections from “loyalty”. Fundamentally aligned in that way.
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There was a big split between hippie dropouts and the more political elements of the counterculture, but with a lot of overlap (they both were oppposed to the Vietnam war eg). The Yippies were explicitly trying to combine the two tendencies, with partial success.
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fred turner's book _from counterculture to cyberculture_ differentiates well btwn the new left (oriented towards political change/critique) & what he calls "new communalists" who were more oriented to transformations in consciousness. aesthetics were similar, politics were not
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"Turn on, tune in, drop out." "Turn on" and "tune in" seem consistent with activism. Maybe "drop out" referred specifically to the establishment rat race (college, jobs, etc.), and not to all social engagement/concern.
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The Diggers are the group to look at here. They were indeed often at odds with typical Haight-Ashbury washouts. OTOH, a lot of "dropping out" was explicitly political, if not terribly effective. A refusal to participate in a perceived grey flannel narrative.
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Fred Turner wrote an entire book about this (where he called the hippie element "the new communalists"). It's called From Counterculture To Cyberculture. There was some writing about it at the time, too, where the division was generally called "Heads vs Fists"
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