[lbo-talk] Punk as left cultural force (was Bob again, Nat'l Review)

[Doug Henwood]

On May 29, 2006, at 7:47 PM, B. wrote:


> Yes, there were dumb numbskulled attitudes early on in
> punk

Yes there were. I used to listen to Pat Duncan's punk/hardcore show  
on WFMU <http://wfmu.org/playlists/PD> a lot, and was creeped out by  
how much reactionary stuff was on it in the early 1980s. That changed  
as the decade went on, and it pretty much disappeared. But there was  
plenty in the early Reagan years. A lot of it was anti-hippie, a  
position I'm sympathetic with, but in an often hateful way.

Doug