Any Communist prog fans out there? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

For fans of Communism , I suggest Anne Applebaum's masterful "Iron Curtain, the crushing of Eastern Europe" as a must read. One of the best and fairest books ever written on the subject.

Clear, detailed and apolitical, just like a good historical book should be.....

I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth.

King of Loss wrote:

Tapfret wrote:

It looks good on paper and would probably work if not for humans' general stupidity, greed, sloth and shortsightedness. It has a lot of potential but has been used as the means to the same end as every other system in history. It ultimately leads to Totalitarianism to be sure the "even" redistribution of wealth does not apply to the ruling class.

What do you think of cultural marxism (cultural communism)? It's pretty prevalent these days.

Cultural Marxism is a joke. The people who ramble about this stuff are usually far-right nationalist with extreme paranoia issues. Marxism cannot be cultural because it is an inherently materialist conception of social reality.

The fear of "cultural marxism" comes from the existence of the Frankfurt School, who mostly departed from revolutionary marxism and devised schemes to somehow bring about communism through taking over academia and the media and culturally preparing the world for communism. The problem with this view is that leaves out the self-activity of the working class as the source of socialism and socialist consciousness. The thing is, any kind of cultural radicalism can easily be absorbed by capital and sold as a commodity, as we saw in the 60's.

Grey is frequently better than black or white, perhaps only because we are (thankfully) not all the same.

The T wrote:

In a way many prog bands already work like a communist dream. All band members are equal but some are more equal than others.

Captain Beefheart's Magic Band leaps to mind.

In a way many prog bands already work like a communist dream. All band members are equal but some are more equal than others.

I'm for it as long as I get to be a high ranking Party official, with the nice cars and dachas and so forth.

I don't have too much of a problem with anarcho-communism (well, I do, but I wouldn't really want to prevent it if.)

I usually let music do musical stuff rather than look for politics in it.

"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "

Tapfret wrote:

The only time I ever hear that term is from sabre rattling radicals. It is a purely inflammatory pseudo-ideology drummed up by a handful of people who hate the fact that they will never be able to convert everyone to their way of thinking. The fact that people of different races, nationalities, religions, political orientation, gender identification and so-on can work side by side really pisses some people off.

I agree with you. I'm what you call a third cultural kid and I think people can most definitely live side by side peacefully. The problem is that there are power hungry elites who utilize the tribal nature within most of us to prevent that from happening.

Tapfret wrote:

It looks good on paper and would probably work if not for humans' general stupidity, greed, sloth and shortsightedness. It has a lot of potential but has been used as the means to the same end as every other system in history. It ultimately leads to Totalitarianism to be sure the "even" redistribution of wealth does not apply to the ruling class.

What do you think of cultural marxism (cultural communism)? It's pretty prevalent these days.