Woody Guthrie: "Notwithstanding Guthrie's later claim that "the best thing that I did in 1936 was to sign up with the Communist Party,"[18] he was never a member of the Party. He was noted as a fellow traveler—an outsider who agreed with the platform of the party while not subject to party discipline.[19] Guthrie requested to write a column for the Communist newspaper, The Daily Worker. The column, titled "Woody Sez", appeared a total of 174 times from May 1939 to January 1940. "Woody Sez" was not explicitly political, but was about current events as observed by Guthrie."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie

Technically not a "hippie", maybe, but certainly a precursor. Maybe a hippy libertarian of the collectivist variety. Most of the "hippies" I knew were collectivist, certainly not libertarian. They wanted their food stamps.

But ya calls 'em as ya sees them, don't you.