• CrimsonDynamo [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Punk is reactionary by nature. It basically started because a bunch of pissed off teens didn't have the attention span for prog rock, and formed a reactionary kind of music based on that.

    I'm not saying that somewhere out there, there isn't a good punk band. I'm sure there is. I also dig the anti establishment angle of punk. But over all, it's not my thing.

    • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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      2 years ago

      it's not "reactionary by nature" you square listen to the clash or something

    • MarxGuns [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I’m going to be a semantics Stalin here but ‘reactionary’ doesn’t mean ‘one who reacts’ but ‘one who wants a return to status quo ante’.

      • CrimsonDynamo [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        You're right. What word are we looking for here?

        I wish I could wave a magic wand and make "reactionary" mean what it sounds like it means.

          • MarxGuns [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            Really, if we had the chance to switch it all around, I'd rather Marx/Engels had used some other word besides reactionary. Reactive is good for the common understanding of 'reactionary' though. I suppose their problem was that the reactionaries were reactive with a desire to return to status quo ante, hah. I wonder what the german word it is translated from... :thinkin-lenin:

    • ides_of_Merch [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      didn’t have the attention span for prog rock

      "we replaced your uninteresting pretentious dogshit with music that is 2x more uninteresting pretentious dogshit" Is this what Adorno meant by negative dialectics?

      • CrimsonDynamo [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Finding the roots of punk is like trying to herd cats. I am very into garage rock and Detroit rock, so I have an appreciation for the roots of punk. I don't know where they lose me, but where I pick it up again would make punk fans cringe. I like MXPX and old Green Day. That's kind of about it.