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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, November 3, 1967
The new KU left: 'anarcho
The SDS story
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is a radical activist organization with chapters on many American campuses—including KU. Its membership includes idealists, pragmatists, socialists, and many other easily-applied labels. However, few individual members can be pigeonholed into one simple definition.
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Kay Hedrick, Robinson freshman, is an uncompromised idealist.
Her idealism springs from the philosophies of Ayn Rand, author of "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged." However, while Rand is generally considered by many to be a prophet of the right, her philosophies have directed Miss Hedrick in the opposite direction.
Through reading Rand, Kay Hedrick found a hero for herself. "Ayn Rand's hero's goal is reality," Miss Hedrick said. "He is a person in control of reality at all times."
When she came to KU, Miss Hedrick found in the members of SDS "people who were closest to the Ayn Rand heroes."
"I believe that EVERYTHING should be based on individual choice," she said.
Reality, for Kay Hedrick, goes hand-in-hand with rationality. Her view of the totally rational society is one where no laws or law enforcement would be necessary because truly rational people would not need laws or restrictions.
Some crimes, such as murder or robbery, would not be committed by truly rational people, Miss Hedrick said, while others such as drinking would be decided by the individual on the basis of whether or not it would infringe on anothers rights.
"However," she admitted, "what I believe should come about isn't workable in the present society because the
majority of the people simply aren't rational."
"I'm very disillusioned about people," Miss Hedrick said.
She told of how one of her bosses embezzled the company's funds, how a teacher at her high-school got a student pregnant, and how the important students were valued for wealth or beauty rather than intelligence.
"And people were so apathetic!" she exclaimed. "The biggest slice of the
people don't give a damn thing!"
But Miss Hedrick now her own picture of a "perf based on her new-found ideals.
"My perfect reality is that be free from the chains of and live his life as he sees infringing on the rights of c
"I'm optimistic that it about."
'Support your Id
Gus diZerega turned from a poster he had just made for an anti-draft demonstration and looked askance at the reporter who was interviewing him.
"I am extremely leery of labels," he explained, "because they are misleading, but I would describe my self as an 'anarchosyndico-capitalist.'"
A button on his heavy wool shirt, reading "Support your Loc! Anarchist" seemed to support his statement.
"An anarcho-syndico-capitalist," the Wichita junior continued, "is a person who believes in the maximization of personal liberties in every aspect of human action, and who believes in the economic
liberty of maximization of economic power of each individual.
"I also believe that governments are inherently hostile to individual liberties and obsolete in a nuclear age." Therefore, di Zerega said, he advocates radical decentralization of society.
"Big business, government and labor are also destructive to human values," he continued, "and it is imperative that they be eliminated if human liberty is to be established."
"People should be allowed to live the way they want to live," diZerega said. "I like the way the hippies say it: "do you own thing."
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