What was the mistake the sixties counterculture made?
LF: They imported a foreign ideology, not having one of their own; they adopted Marxism in various forms. Either Marxism or Maoism. And philosophers like [Herbert] Marcuse were chosen as primary philosophers of the movement. Marcuse was a professor at the University of California/San Diego, but he was a leading Marxist philosopher. The sixties counterculture was not able to develop a theology of its own, an ideology of its own. So one wing split off into Maoism and violence, and another part went off in the pacifist direction, one part went off in a Marxist direction. C: What do you think they should have chosen as an ideology? LF: For decades the motor of the Left was labor. It wasn t Communist with a capital C , it was socialist with a small s . It was basically populist. There was a Populist Party in this country; it almost took power in the thirties. Earl Warren, who became governor of California, was originally in the Populist Party. There was a whole populist movement coming out