To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception (while using mescaline), to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large – this is an experience of inestimable value to everyone and especially to the intellectual.”

He had been decisively vetoed by a number of the inaugurators, who wanted to avoid antagonizing the Labour Party and feared that he would wreck an anti-nuclear movement by pushing it to extreme pacifism. 'Unilateral disarmament can, in my view, only be advocated with complete honesty if the possibility that one's nation may become a martyr nation is fully accepted.' Similarly, he refused to participate in the campaign to stop the testing of nuclear weapons. Only total disarmament would serve, he explained to the organizer, and he would be compelled to say so if he joined the campaign, voicing also the absolutist necessity to risk the enslavement or annihilation of Britain for the sake of such disarmament.

I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and the people can be trusted to behave decently if you will only let them alone.

I can say to Ben-Gurion, with the deepest sympathy and respect, 'Do not kill Adolf Eichmann'. If six million have been slaughtered, what can it profit to make the number six million and one? ...I mean a power, in those whose dear ones have suffered so unthinkably, to spare the killer.

I wonder whether homosexual love may not sometimes be purer in heart than average heterosexual love; and whether to give everything and demand nothing, after the fashion of chivalry, may not more commonly be the mark of it. ...No love in my life has been purer, in the sense in which I have already used the word, more selfless and other-regarding, than my love for Gilbert.

(there should be) Limitation of incomes, on such a scale that the highest income in Britain does not exceed the lowest by more than ten to one. (No one would make over 165,460 EUR a year in the modern day United Kingdom if this was ‘already achieved in the west.’)

As long as supernatural beliefs persist, men can be exploited by cunning priests and oligarchs, and the technical progress which is the prerequisite of a just society cannot be achieved.

I must have missed when we “achieved” the disarmament of all the world's governments and the non-existence of armies, the world-wide establishment of a utopian societies and pacifist-anarchist states, the abandonment of organized religion, the legalization and use of hallucinogenic drugs to achieve enlightenment, socialism overcoming the political spectrum in the United States, the redistribution of wealth, wide acceptance of free-love ideals, abolishing the existence of capital punishment, and the end of world poverty.

Or maybe their political views would still be considered progressive, some of them to an extreme. But most of all, maybe when complaining about a reader “adhering to rigid progressive ideology” these would be comical authors to suggest reading in order to support your conservative views. That was pretty much my point all along. It seems that you don’t have even the most basic understanding of their political views to be able to understand that, so you’re probably not very familiar with them yourself. Maybe you could do some research, instead of, well, just regurgitating what you have been told.