 
Abbie Hoffman
  
   Source: Playboy interview
   
  
  
   You stimulate the opposition to react so that it overpowers itself, becomes
   its own enemy, and you escape in the process.  It's the same technique we
   used in Chicago during the demonstrations.  And it's true that I've
   studied the technique.  You have to learn to communicate.  You study your
   environment - in this case, the electronic jungle of the United States -
   just the way a Latin-American revolutionary studies the back streets of
   Buenos Aires or a Vietnamese studies the jungles of Indochina.  You learn
   your terrain and how to use it.
  
  
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