Clint said :
Such passive bullshit, what is with some people?
Were you there?
Where are you now?
Who the fuck are you?
How have you lived?
I can’t believe that i’m reading/hearing/being subjected to the same subjective crap all these years/decades later!
Crass, decanted the whole can of worms & oh so many people missed the point & disappeared up their own existence trying to pull them apart.
Get ya’ own phuckin’ art out then, qunts!
The name of the band tells you everything you need to know about it’s detractors.

Which I read as saying “Crass were an important and influential group who put a lot of effort into their work. It is really annoying that they still get criticised by people who never made the same efforts and are generally negative rather than positive.”

But where does that leave the ‘myth’ of Crass? By this I mean the lazy assumption that Crass = anarcho-punk so ‘anarcho-punk’ just means ’Crass fan’ ? So you can get an academic like George McKay writing a history of ’cultural resistance since the sixties’ [in his book Senseless Acts of Beauty Fair, published in 1996] saying that Crass alone out of the punk/post-punk groups avoided recuperation and maintained their political and artistic autonomy… but when I questioned him about the statement , he admitted he was unaware of Rubella Ballet, Zounds, The Mob, The Apostles etc., of the Centro Iberico and the various post-Wapping anarchy centres.

Crass had a high enough media profile to register outside the anarcho-punk scene and so get included in such sociology as political history studies. The complex, dynamic and confusing reality – as illustrated by the sheer diversity of musics available here on KYPP – gets lost and only Crass remain and all the other voices get drowned out.

Maybe what you are hearing as ‘passive bullshit‘ and ‘the same subjective crap‘ are just some of those other voices saying different things, having points of view and perspectives different to Crass. Maybe Crass themselves were just one voice among many, one version of anarchy and punk.

Supporting evidence- ‘We can be together’ by Jefferson Airplane.

We are all outlaws in the eyes of america
In order to survive we steal cheat lie forge fred hide and deal
We are obscene lawless hideous dangerous dirty violent and young
But we should be together
Come on all you people standing around
Our life’s too fine to let it die and
We can be together
All your private property is
Target for your enemy
And your enemy is
We
We are forces of chaos and anarchy
Everything they say we are we are
And we are very
Proud of ourselves
Up against the wall
Up against the wall fred (motherfucker)
Tear down the walls
Tear down the walls

Such passive bullshit, what is with some people?

Were you there?
Where are you now?
Who the fuck are you?
How have you lived?

I can’t believe that i’m reading/hearing/being subjected to the same subjective crap all these years/decades later!

Crass, decanted the whole can of worms & oh so many people missed the point & disappeared up their own existence trying to pull them apart.
Get ya’ own phuckin’ art out then, qunts!

The name of the band tells you everything you need to know about it’s detractors.

Pfffttt!

APF

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