Abby Hoffman claimed to be a "revolutionary"![lol]

Even if he was only a hippie....
Founder or follower... Who could tell, when the whole "movement" was stoned.

He spouted a lot of banalities, but I don't recall him ever using the terms...
"like man..." or "Groooovy!!"[lol]

By the way, once upon a time, I used a considerable amount of Albert Hoffman's invention.

Charity might compel me to explain your posts by reference to the above. However, I don't feel much charity towards you. You're a moron.

Just think how long he might have lived were it not for his drug experimentation.

:)

Triumph's right. For me, the high-water mark of the Yippie movement was Hoffman and Rubin's appearance before the House Unamerican Activities Committee, an entity they treated with the contempt it deserved. From Wiki:

The House Un-American Activities Committee subpoenaed Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman of the Yippies in 1967, and again in the aftermath of the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The Yippies neither respected nor feared the committee, and used media attention to make a mockery of the proceedings. Rubin came to one session dressed as an American Revolutionary War soldier, and passed out copies of the United States Declaration of Independence to people in attendance. Then Rubin "blew giant gum bubbles while his co-witnesses taunted the committee with Nazi salutes."[10] Hoffman attended a session dressed as Santa Claus. On another occasion, police stopped Hoffman at the building entrance and arrested him for wearing an American flag. Hoffman quipped for the press, "I regret that I have but one shirt to give for my country," paraphrasing the last words of revolutionary patriot Nathan Hale; meanwhile Rubin, who was wearing a matching Viet Cong flag, shouted that the police were communists for not arresting him also.

Just think how long he might have lived were it not for his drug experimentation.

Maybe it was the drug experimentation that helped him live to be 102.

I always thought that was just an alternate spelling.

Not quite. It would be hard to even peg a "founder" of the hippie movement since its origins go back even to the beatniks. There wasn't a clear declaration of a hippy movment. (e.g. it would be like trying to pin a "founder" of feminism, civil rights, conservatism, etc...).

Abbey Hoffman was, indeed, a founder of the Yippees--which was an explicitly self-identified political movement, the Youth International Party (YIP, hence the name).

I think you meant "Yippie" movement.

I always thought that was just an alternate spelling.

And, so far as I know, he’s no relation to Abbie Hoffman, the founder of the Hippie movement.

I think you meant "Yippie" movement.