That’s something that has bothered me forever; that punk in its essence is so very libertarian, but it’s followers, and even the bands themselves are a bunch of lefties. I mean you’ve got the whole movement born of the trash strike and council housing life and all that but they all railed against Thatcher as if it were all her creation and not the Labour party that had been in control for 3 decades or more. Maybe that’s why they wore chains and dog collars; they secretly feared independence...hmm...
Some day when the kids are grown up maybe I’ll write a book about it, if no one else has at that point.
Well you’ll have no shortage of material to work with. Look up the Synth Britainia documentary. Excelent doc, but one of the Heaven 17 goys and Cabaret Voltaire dudes goes into the evils of Thatcher. Actually it’s hit on several times throughout.
I have actually looked into this whole thing quite a bit as I’m a hobbyist musician. It really comes down to the communist goals of 63 and marxism in the larger sense/how it operates. Movements/popular whatever were infiltrated and ‘directed’. People didn’t see politics in music like today even when it was in their face. But more importantly they didn’t see behind it either. Because they just wanted to be entertained.
The irony is that most punks were so manipulated they cannot admit it without their entire life’s beliefs being crushed. Their entire being would be a lie.
Also, look at the millenials of today. Most are entrepreneurial because they have to be. Yet many are anticapitalist. Total disconnect.
Many women buy into the Right wing war on women. Same thing.
American blacks largely blame whites for everything while mocking any black who breaks out of poverty. Again. total disconnect.
Same thing behind the manipulation of the punks. They have all been fed the lie that up is down and since humans are conformist animals, we all fear being the off man out more than almost anything.
A punk in the 70s would have been set upon as hard as the examples above we see today. So they perpetuate their own downfall and convince themselves that all their friends are right and that they have to conform. They think something is wrong with them (selves) to NOT confom...so they do... and one philosophy/group of people reaps the reward of all their hard work.
Left/communists.