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Anarcho-punk (also known as anarchist punk [1] or peace punk [2]) is an ideological subgenre of punk rock that promotes anarchism. Some use the term broadly to refer to any punk music with anarchist lyrical content, which may figure in crust punk, hardcore punk, folk punk, and other styles.
27 de feb. de 2023 · How did punk emerge out of the countercultures of the 1960s that it claimed to reject? Why did it play such a central role in the resurgence of anarchism around the world at the end of the 20th century? How did it prefigure the participatory media of the digital age? And what can its legacy teach us today?
Many anarcho-punks are pacifists (e.g. Crass and Discharge) and therefore believe in using non-violent means of achieving their aims. These include peaceful protest, squatting , legal graffiti , culture jamming , ecotage , freeganism , boycotting , civil disobedience , hacktivism and subvertising .
From the numerous situationist slogans that graced the lyrics of early punk bands, to the proliferation of anarcho-punk bands such as Crass and Conflict in the early eighties, punk rock as a subculture has had a unique history of having a strong relationship with explicitly anarchist and anti-capitalist political content over the years.
This article will analyse and compare Class War and CrimethInc. in terms of these emerging key themes, i.e. their connections with punk and their manifestations of ‘being punk’; their iconoclastic attitudes to ‘pre-punk’ anarchists; their conceptions of class; and their positions regarding lifestylism.
4 de may. de 2023 · Punk Is Dead. The anarchist repertoires of contention were revitalized in the Swedish 1980s when anarchism met punk. Direct action came to inform the politics of squatting, sabotage actions, and struggles for freedom for humans and animals alike.
11 de oct. de 2017 · Anarcho-punk called for conscious living and activist engagement amongst punks. Led by UK bands such as Crass, anarcho-punks were often engaged in anti-war activism, with a focus on revitalising the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (Worley 2011; Rimbaud 1998).
