His drug use “I smoke marijuana every chance I get,” would not enamor him to Communist leaders, who would have difficulties with someone who has “mystical visions and cosmic vibrations.” His belief in absolute freedom of expression, including sexual expression, would not put him in favor of the officially Puritanical Communists of his day. Against the war machines Ginsberg penned the famous lines, “American when will we end the human war? / Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.” On economic policy, Ginsberg’s views tend toward Communism, though not to Stalinist communism: “When will you be worthy of your million Trotskyites?” Ginsberg prefers the allegedly more benign Communism of Leon Trotsky. MichaelpottsĪllen Ginsberg’s poem, “America” is a biting, sarcastic attack on the American war machine, on capitalism, and on traditional morality.
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