> I'd characterise the London 'scenes' as a broadly
cheerful, informally constituted, beer-sipping
anarcho-syndicalist tendency with scattered
residual Marxist undertones. A disaffected avant-garde trace
element, neither leading with sense of direction nor sharing
any articulated sense of who and what it might be 'in the
front' of. ....Residues of liberal hippy idealisms blurring
into punk and Goth. Singular 'outsider' or 'indifferenter'
projections. Verging on arch romantic at times.
Cris, or anyone, what were the plans of these politics?
I can see the disaffection and so on connecting with punk
but what part of punk was political other than its
anti-fascist rallies. I pick up a lot of skepticism,
or perhaps bracing anti-nostalgia, in these considered
words. But are you suggesting an intellectual wing of
punk, or an intellectual/anti-bourgeois movement
vitalised by the punk movement (which has about its
primal, majority feel more of adolescent rebellion,
a great no saying with very little yes saying, as
if any yes saying was too intellectual/bourgeois-
are they the same thing). Did these scenes have any
plans, "Blairite" long-term strategy ho ho, for
long-term change; were its pieties by nature dogmatic,
not about to cut their cloth (Margaret Thatcher always
seemed a major punk to me, impossible before punk etc)?
Ira
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