Ferenc Molnar wrote:
> I have no idea where the writer is placed on the political spectrum
Diedrichsen used to be the editor of the music magazine "Spex" in the early 1990s, when it was considered a "leftist" magazine.
During the general sense of disillusionment and defeat in the wake of German "re-unification", a tendency sprang up around "Spex" and journals like "Die Beute" and "17 Grad Celsius" which would come to be described as the "Pop Left", basically arguing for a retreat from traditional concerns with social justice and economic struggles, because they regarded the German working class as irredemably racist and counter-revolutionary. Instead, the "left" should concentrate on constructing sub-cultural niches around music and clothing and other pop-cultural tastes to construct a sort of counter-hegemony to the supposedly racist and reactionary masses.
In retrospect, it's the sort of silly idea about political relevance that only school students could come up with, but these were actual adults pushing this sort of silly "revolution through sub-culture" line.