Anti-hierarchical 1960s youth applied their tactics to their own leaders

Evidence

It was not just within SDS that some of the original architects of contemporary contention found themselves attacked from below. Even Bertrand Russell, the founder of the Committee of 100, found himself besieged by a group of three young Londoners who baffled him by refusing to leave his flat, forcing the mathematician to call the police to remove them. In his autobiography, he notes that this earned the kids quite a bit of media attention, which may have been all they wanted. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 85

Categorization

• CANDY: Bertrand Russell calling police on squatters who wanted media attention is a perfect light anecdote.
• XREF: connects to: The 1960s student movement alienated the aging Frankfurt School leadership — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 6