Buzzcocks
Another Music in a Different Kitchen

THE REVIEW

Dear communist comrades, or kind gentlemen, this is the first article in a series that promises to be arduous and discontinuous. While examining the site, Karl Liebknecht and I paid particular attention to certain pages, and it seemed to us that the communist doctrine, rather than being exalted by (alleged) followers of Marx and Engels, was actually being mocked. However, the Spartacist League wants to propose a reflection on possible attempts to spread extreme left-wing thought, while also sharing the ridicule of the tragic regimes of Stalin, Mao, and other dictators, degenerations worthy of the Nazi-fascist barbarity which have nothing to do with true socialism. Let's start from a premise: Lenin was wrong in wanting to maneuver the workers' movement through a well-organized party, and indeed what happened happened; instead, the masses themselves must be well organized.

Here is the point of this article: the other Spartacist members and I, after duly informing ourselves, have discovered an interesting musical genre, punk; we realized that it tends to be politically colored, and that, if steered in the right directions, it could offer a significant contribution to our cause. However, we regret to note how nowadays the Western world is prey to a religion known as capitalism, whose god is money, and how this system is a cancer that reproduces indefinitely (the bad infinity of master Hegel) and infects the minds of people, flattening their ideas and annihilating their existences. Therefore, conscious that the masses need to be sensitized, we believe that, since they are mostly accustomed to a type of music known as "pop," the first step is to publicize certain works, like the one I present here, which occupy a sort of limbo between the two genres: it is "pop-punk." This record, for instance, is clearly punk, but, in our Spartacist opinion, the mostly catchy melodies and the vocalist's peculiar voice make it suitable to fit into this category. After a few works of a similar kind, which I warmly invite you to recommend to those closest to you, others more overtly oriented towards left-wing punk should follow: this will be of fundamental importance to stimulate, if promoted in the appropriate way, a spark of critical thought in the masses, which can thus, with numerous other measures and interventions, be led towards the spontaneous revolution we of the Spartacist League hope for. 

Sincerely, Rosa Luxemburg.