Communism in Prog

Hmm...A slight resemblence. That's why Fripp had part of his face blocked out on that album cover.

Only joking!

Robert Wyatt was a memebr of the Communist Party of Great Britain for over 10 years, and this is refelected in some of his songwriting and the songs he chooses to cover. Nothing Can Stop Us, Old Rottenhat and Dondestan all have a lot of politically explicit material on them.

Henry Cow were also into left wing politics, a commitment which most of those involved retain up to the present day, Chris Cutler in particular.

The other RIO bands - Etron Fou, Art Zoyd, Stormy 6, Zammla Mammaz Manna and Univers Zero - all shared a similar political outlook, though the exact nature of their engagement varied considerably - Art Zoyd, for example, had a detailed manifesto to describe their art and politics, while to the best of my knowledge Univers Zero have never made any public statements about their political beliefs.

I've always though that most prog is inclined more to the left than to the right. can anyone think of any explicitly right wing prog acts?

Viva la libertad Y viva el rock Progresivo.!!!!

German bands  of early 70s such as Eloy were left oriented.It is interesting tthat countries with extreme right past is growning with extreme left youth,and vice versa.But speaking about politics in music, criticizing capitalism and consuming society Pink Floyd's Animals was the best in my opinion.

Viva communismo e la liberta

Eetu Pellonpää wrote: spectral wrote: Couldn't they have just taken drugs!  would've been less dangerous! No! If you were caught from smoking (or even thinking about) weed you got exessive punishment from the authorities. Finland shares the mass hysteria towards drugs with America and Sweden. It's OK to be a violent alcoholic, but if you smoke dope you are taken to face the riffle squad.

When will those American republican bastards ever learn? First it's "marijuana has 4 times as much as tobacco as a cigarrett" (Camel cigarrette  ) Then a few years ago they do a new campagne against marijuana saying that the money goes to terrorists and show the 9/11 tragedy with the planes crashing into the buildings, trying to be real dramatic.

That makes a lot of sense, instead of growing it at home or getting it from people that can easily grow it at home, marijuana comes from terrorists in asia and is somehow smuggled here when it's nearly impossible to smuggle marijuana across our border anymore.

They will stop at nothing to make anything fun a crime. Not that I smoke it or anything.

AtomHeartMother wrote: Viva la Resistance!

        great episode btw.

Here in Brazil, prog bands of the 70s opposed the right-wing military dictatorship... I wouldn't say they all were communists but certainly they were left-wing.

As a leftist myself it made me more keen to the Brazilian prog-movement: Mutantes, O Terço, Som Imaginário, 14-Bis, Secos & Molhados, etc.

Other musical movements here (in the 60s and 70s) like tropicalismo and clube da esquina were left-oriented too - together with many people from the so-called MPB (more traditional Brazilian music including samba and bossa nova).

[QUOTE=abyssyinfinity]Area, Stormy Six & Venegoni & Co., obviously!
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso in the 70's were near the Italian Socialist Party, they had an album called Garofano Rosso (Red Carnation)...[/QUOTE]

Don't know why the quote box did not appear????

Area's version of Internazionale (worker's anthem) appears on Areazione (the live LP) and the new box set, Revolution.

As for Garafano Rosso, it was a soundtrack to a film by Luigi Faccini. It is set in Sicily in the 1920's, and it follows the activities of a love-struck young man who is slightly involved with the local fascist party. Fascists, socialists and communists were all wrestling for control of that area at that time. I may be wrong, but I think the carnation was used by the fascists...???