Prog Rock Political Party

It's really confusing that in America liberal signifies left-wing, in Denmark the liberal party is right-wing, and ideologically it belongs to the ideology entitled "liberalism" (not in reality but at least historically…) which I assume worldwide (incl. USA) corresponds to approximately the same thing, namely that the individual is solely responsible for his (or hers) own fortune and success, no collective responsibility what so ever. Liberalists also have full faith in the free market. This is clearly opposed to the collective ideologies as for instance socialism/communism whose supporters (generally considered left-wingers)  believe that it’s a collective responsibility to assure the well-being of people and to support those less-fortuned, they don’t believe in a strict free market etc… This is of course super superficially presented, there are of course many more facets to be taken into account, and it merely serves no other purpose than to express my slight annoyance concerning the term liberal used to denote “left-wing.”

But I must say that I believe all this talk of ideology and “left- vs. right-wing” is slightly dated, and today rather pointless… I myself isn’t that interested in practical politics, I don’t have a strong opinion about many things, but I must say that I sympathize a great deal with the general views of socialism, and I always vote for the Danish left-wing/socialist/red party.                     

  

Edited by ummagumma08

Sice I do not belive in parlamentarianism I don't belong in any "party". Nope, I consider myself something of a left-wing libertarian/ anarchist.

The Wizard wrote: Rock itself is liberal.

Tell Rush that. They have some very nasty right wing attitudes and Neil Peart is particularly neo con in his outlook. Strange when you consider that Geddy Lee is Jewish by descent.

Another goofy post.  It's a shame to see something great and honorable (prog. music) get somehow mixed up with something that's often full of loathing and corruption (politics).

 

FragileDT wrote: GPFR wrote: Conservitive here, I think music and politics are two very unrelated topics. I don't. Music and politics cross all the time. Tons of songs are written about politics and conditions in today's world and in fact, I can't really think of a prog band off the top of my head that never touched base on war/peace, saving society, corruption, ect...

Well, that depends on what you listen too more, the music or the lyrics,  Ifor one listen to the Music itself, and emotion of the vocals, if it's politics or religion against what I think, who cares? Doesn't make me think less of the song.

Again from an american view , liberal is left wing when the rest of the planets sees the libs as capitalists.

so from your list I chose other and pose myself and the vast majotity of progheads (check out the results of the political compass test) as left-wing with a fairly strong libertarian feel.

GPFR wrote: Conservitive here, I think music and politics are two very unrelated topics.

 I think music and politics are two very unrelated topics, too.

someone answer my question!  please!

Rock itself is liberal.

well I like to think of myself as a political science major as both a liberal progressive just as i am a fan of progressive music, all things leading forward you might say. I also have a few semi political questions that maybe someone here can answer.

*Selling England By the Pound is supposed to read like a political platform for one of the parties in england at the time, can't find much information here

*someone mentioned dream theater as liberals here somewhere but i seem to remember hearing a dream theater song that i thought was apposed to stem cell research, maybe it was satire, but dream theater are usually painfully straight-forward with their lyrics. sorry i don't know the title of the song, I'm not to big on them actually, but i think it's rather new, after metropolis part 2 at least...