[lbo-talk] Punk Pioneer PD Oedipus Leaves WBCN Boston

[Michael Pugliese]

You prob know punk to begin with was an inconsistent
mish mash of right, left, whatever-the-hell beliefs,
people playing with shocking imagery, swastikas, etc.,
but by the mid 80s thanks to bands like the Dead
Kennedys, Crass, Subhumans, etc it had pretty much
solidified as a leftist "movement," often in spite of
the left itself, which seemed to be embarrassed by
these unlikely, scary-looking, pimply faced allies.
Tipper Gore hated them, most establishment liberals
did/do. 

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    Bruce Dancis, a draft resister in the 60's, later rock critic for the Bay Guardian here, wrote a favorable piece on punk rock for Socialist Review in '78. Many outraged letters followed (almost as many as the interview on feminism and pornography w/ three socialist feminists or the pieces on gay liberation by Steven Epstein and others). In the Althusserian marxist-leninist journal , Theoretical Review (I know a former contributor, he 'sez too much acid fried the brains of the editors, along w/ the Arizona Sun), "Paul Costello, " (not his real name), wrote a couple of pro-punk rawk pieces.

http://www.missionofburma.com/records/signals.html

   

   

Michael Pugliese