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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Seriously though, if you talk about socialism and the working class, well hi ho here's music made by the working class expressing a basic desire to not be poor and you denigrate it because it doesn't live up to your expectations of what you support as a snob. It might not be self-aware music at times but it's an honest expression of dissatisfaction with how society has treated them and it's still important if nothing else but as a document of a social group's feelings.
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Weird comment(s). Wanting to go from working/under-class to rich isn't an exclusively socialist idea, and the way they express that vision in the music is through a glorification of capitalism.
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