Word: rubins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jerry Rubin's revolution is a revolution of theatre, with masks and costumes and props. In a way that is most unfortunate. This country needs a revolution and needs it badly. It does not need Jerry Rubin's revolution...
...Jerry Rubin is the hero of the romantic side of many of these split personalities. In a classic libretto-radical transformation he changed from a normal, middle-class liberal student to the leader of the Yippies. As he says in Do It . "I dropped out, dropped out of the White Race and the American nation. I live for the revolution. I'm a yippie. I am an orphan of America...
...talk of freedom and dropping out, Jerry Rubin is still very much a part of this country. He is still able to write a book, one that will sell. He is still able to be the leader of a movement which should have no leaders. He is still able to go to the Coop to promote his book and to wave that book in front of the television cameras. All the while he denounces capitalism and hawks the revolution...
David Dellinger, one of Rubin's co-defendants at the Chicago trial, spoke at Tufts a couple of weeks ago. He spoke of his revolution, a political one. Dellinger, unlike Rubin, is not a product of the fifties. He grew up in the thirties and forties and has been fighting his battles for a long time. In a soft, experienced, but not weary voice, he told of the Chicago trial and how it fits into the movement. It is not a signal for revolution, or any kind of a spark. It is part of a long struggle which...
Dellinger's approach is the kind that is needed to bring any type of political change. Rubin's style, manic, egocentric, theatrical in the worst sense of the word, can provide entertainment, but not real change. He is looking for a brilliant, beautiful spark which will come only in fiction...