Don't listen to much newer stuff but I'm pretty familiar with Ostpunk (punk from East Berlin/Germany) and I like it a lot. Can definitely see why some people wouldn't like it though lol it's hard to get into if you aren't already primed to like sorta shit music
see the other comment here. Deutschland and Links 2 3 4 are their most overtly left-wing songs, with Deutschland (Germany) being a song that pretty clearly speaks out against german nationalism in particular, and Links 2 3 4 (Left 2 3 4) being a song clearly defining them as left wing while poking fun at people saying they're right-wing because of their militaristic aesthetics through making the whole song pretty much a marching tempo
one of the interviews theyve done with rolling stone, i got it from a quote from a classic rock uk article from 2019.
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Far from flirting with Nazi chic, several Rammstein members retain a strong attachment to the communal left-wing ethos of East Germany. "We have grown up as socialists," Lindemann told Rolling Stone. "We used to be either punks or goths; We hate Nazis! We are coming from an entirely different culture. We used to beat up those right-wing morons, and we still would today."
i like that they openly condemn the nazi part of their fanbase. they're a pretty cool antifascist band considering the singer and the lead guitarist used to beat up skinheads in the gdr
yeah speaking as someone who grew up with nordic mythology it sucks how symbols of it have been appropriated for the use of fash shit. if i get anything related to it i'll probably wear some obviously commie stuff to counteract any white supremacist vibes
the nice (?) or at least interesting thing about it is it's used (in the case of the former) to highlight how the characters involved have a childish view of love and can only conceptualize it in context of the familial, and of course because utena doesn't have a family to have familial relations to she doesn't realize how messed up it is and just sees it as "wow these siblings really love each other huh! :)"
Thanks, mainly thought it was postmodern art because I remembered someone talking about it in a comment section lol. Looks interesting, I'll give those a read.
Like postmodern artists literally got CIA funding and promotion through front companies to serve as a meaningless and vapid counterpart to socialist realism.
do you have any sources/reading on this? would love to check it out if you have
every day i wake up and think about this and it makes me feel :deeper-sadness: but then i remind myself that the possibility of this is what reading theory and doing praxis is all about :heart-sickle:
Fair enough - in this context it would specifically be about the current status of American politics re: parties as identity markers and/or changes in Democratic voter demographics since 2016, maybe with some reasoning as to why these changes happened.
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Don't listen to much newer stuff but I'm pretty familiar with Ostpunk (punk from East Berlin/Germany) and I like it a lot. Can definitely see why some people wouldn't like it though lol it's hard to get into if you aren't already primed to like sorta shit music