“This is not a time of radical, revolutionary politics. Not yet. Unrest, riot, dissent and chaos notwithstanding, today’s politics is reactionary. Both left and right are reactionary and authoritarian. That is to say: Both are political. They seek only to revise current methods of acquiring and wielding political power. Radical and revolutionary movements seek not to revise but to revoke. The target of revocation should be obvious. The target is politics itself.”
So began an article in the March 1969 issue of Playboy, that would win an award for Best Non-Fiction in Playboy for 1969. The author was Karl Hess, former Chief Speechwriter for Barry Goldwater. Read the full article @ http://fare.tunes.org/books/Hess/dop.html