Rappers show the flag (And Rock Music???)

Thomas Seay entheogens at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 22 12:39:07 PST 2002


--- Max Sawicky <sawicky at bellatlantic.net> wrote:
> It all started with The Who, for replacing optimism
> with cynicism,
> ("Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."), and
> collective action
> with the supremely alienated individual (Tommy).
>
> mbs
>
>
> > And what year did Rock lose its revolutionary
> > character (in general)? . . .

That's a good point...what year did they write those songs? "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" could correctly have reflected the sentiment of the movement when it could not find any way forward...it was stuck with a choice between reformism or stalinism...between George McGovern or Bob Avakian (here in the US).

Thomas

===== "The tradition of all the dead generations

weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living"

-Karl Marx

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