Abstract
When Marshall Bloom moved Liberation News Service (LNS) to a country commune he told Abbie Hoffman that the relocation was “politically correct,” citing Karl Marx to buttress his argument. For six months packets from Liberation News Service, Massachusetts (LNS-Mass), rolled off the press in the Montague print barn and arrived in underground mailboxes nationwide. Coverage of grassroots activism continued to fill those packets, and the haphazard rule of magic continued to prevail around the press. But deadlines became harder to meet; the time between packets grew. It did not take long for the political mission of Montague Farm to freeze.
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Notes
Stephen Diamond, What the Trees Said: Life on a New Age Farm ( New York: Delacorte, 1971 ), 47–48.
Marty Jezer, “Psychic Farming: The Organic Method,” in Home Comfort: Stories and Scenes of Life on Total Loss Farm, ed. Richard Wizansky (New York: Saturday Review Press, 1973 ), 134.
Raymond Mungo, Total Loss Farm: A Year in the Life ( New York: Dutton, 1970 ), 157.
Barry Laffan, Communal Organization and Social Transition: A Case Study from the Counterculture of the Sixties and Seventies ( New York: Peter Lang, 1997 ), 90–91.
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Slonecker, B. (2012). Down on the Farm: Privacy and Community. In: A New Dawn for the New Left. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137280831_4
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