If my memories of those days serves me...the original hippies were actually colorful libertarians...
However, as in all “revolutionary “ movements, even those which are peaceful, the determined tyrannical and thuggish take advantage as they did in co-opting what was a relatively benign social hoopala.
Thus we had the Marxists( aka, Weather Underground) the Black panthers( who turned out to be very violent) and of course...’the progressives”—waiting in the wings for their opportunity. We also had “peaceniks” , originally of the Qauker pacifists who were co-opted by the virulent , lying anti-war groups( Kerry, Fonda, et all). David Horowitz of Frontpage explains this in great detail as he lived through this.
It is important we remember this history as it has become the lead up to the mess we are in now.
also Students for a Democratic Society, the Chicago 7 dudes, lawyer William Kuntzler. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC - Stokely Carmichael).
What is amazing (to me) is how Obama and his handlers kept track [giant Rolodex?] of all those loonies all these years and when the cup of power was transferred to O, they summoned them all to join their brave new world. Van Jones, Valerie Jarrett and Samantha Power types all over the place, in ever nook and cranny, devoted to “fundamentally change AmeriKa”.