Anarchists, Hippies and Other Undesirables: Alternative Living, Politics and Optimism 1972-1985

The book covers a thirteen-year period in the lives of eighteen people from across Britain. Influenced by ideas of alternative living, the "counter-culture" and socialist/anarchist politics, they put their beliefs into everyday practice through a social experiment in communal, egalitarian living. Although cannabis and hippy trappings of dress and cultural tastes were part of their identity, drug-addled, aimless self-indulgence was not. Determined to be part of wider society, to earn a livin...