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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Edit: And since we were talking about the Clash, I think this very much applies. I'm not a Clash expert, but I've certainly seen quotes where they talk a whole lot about revolution and young people taking back power and other assorted communist revolutionary drivel.
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Most of the Clash grew up in London in the late 1960s and early to mid 1970s and around that time, there was a heavy awareness of socialism largely due to the revolutions years earlier in Hungary and Czechoslovakia and for most of that time Labour were in power (the left) So the band members grew up with a great awareness of all this. When they started recording the Conservatives soon gained power and were about as right wing as you could get, the Clash were a band that had an agenda for their time and I knew a lot of people in London at the time that liked them for their political agenda just as much as their music. I was too young at the time to understand any of this political agenda but in hindsight they were politically spot on despite being socialist romantics at heart. The house I lived in just happened to be a stones throw from where Mick Jones had gone to school several years earlier and most of the teachers in that school were all extremely left wing to my knowledge.