Hess Assails 'Lethal' Government

Karl Hess, former speech writer for Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), urged 150 people gathered last night in Harvard Hall to join him in resisting the "lethal American state" and establishing a "free society based on cooperative anarchism."

The Radical Libertarian Alliance (RLA), a political group whose 40 members come from both Harvard and the Cambridge community, sponsored the meeting.

Different Life Styles

Mark C. Frazier '74 leader of RLA, said that members of the organization advocate life styles "ranging from capitalist individualism to syndicalist communalism," but that all of them support the building of an anarchic, anti-authoritarian society.

"People can organize their own lives; they don't need state bosses to do it for them," Hess said. He said the New Deal was "social fascism," but he also said there were contradictions in Goldwater's philosophy.

"He was opposed to the domestic version of imperialism but he supported the export version," Hess said.

Opposing State Power

Hess called on all radical groups, left and right, to abandon sectarianism-"the elite drive to rule"-and unite in opposing American state power. Hess said this power is "responsible for the systematic annihilation of the Vietnamese people."