The hippies and socialists were the same thing lol. The idea of a concrete hippie identity is a new thing. Back in the 60s participating in the new left would get you called a hippie just as much as dropping acid at Woodstock would.
The new left had critiques of lots of things: the commodification of youth culture, the pacifism of the religious movements, the use of the word hippie as a rhetorical bludgeon similar to "antifa," all sorts of stuff. But they didn't have beef with hippies because "hippies" as a consumer identity built around psych rock, drugs, crystals and cults didn't really exist yet.
The hippies and socialists were the same thing lol. The idea of a concrete hippie identity is a new thing. Back in the 60s participating in the new left would get you called a hippie just as much as dropping acid at Woodstock would.
The new left had critiques of lots of things: the commodification of youth culture, the pacifism of the religious movements, the use of the word hippie as a rhetorical bludgeon similar to "antifa," all sorts of stuff. But they didn't have beef with hippies because "hippies" as a consumer identity built around psych rock, drugs, crystals and cults didn't really exist yet.