Comment by krapp
21 hours ago
The anti-authoritarian, anti-government, anti-fascist, anti-capitalist music genre punk rock? Always right wing?
I mean, Nazis have always been attracted to punk because they like the loud noise but are too stupid to understand lyrics, but they tend to get their shit kicked in by punks more often than not. I don't think that's the same thing.
Sure thing, i.e. Egor Letov
The Ramones were divided politically, if I remember rightly. One of them was on the moderate right.
In the UK, there was also the Rock against Communism movement which came out of the far right faction of punk and was a response to Rock against Racism.
I've seen a lot of confidently incorrect takes on this site, but "punk rock is right wing" may be the worst.
Some punk rock is. The idea that it is always on the left was not true, even in the early days.
There is a myth that punk has always been left wing. Most of it has been, but right wing punk has been there from the beginning and still is around.