Nation: Rubin Relents

Now he promotes capitalism

"Money and financial interests will capture the passion of the '80s." So predicts Jerry Rubin, the counterculture clown of the '60s ("Never trust any one over 30&"). Autres temps, autres moeurs. Thirteen years ago, in protest against American capitalism, Rubin threw dollar bills from the visitors' gallery of the New York Stock Exchange, causing an unseemly, trade-halting scramble on the floor below. As a leader of the Yippies, he mocked the U.S. political system in 1968 by trying to run a pig for President. As one of the Chicago...

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