Despairing little note

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The greatest cartoonist alive is probably Alan Moore. The greatest pop musicians I know are Bruce Springsteen and Francesco Guccini. Popular music and comics are the least corrupt arts still being practiced, living on the love of their fans, not getting one penny of public subventions and academic nonsense. So why the Hell should three such giants be still tied up in various ways to the murderous nonsense of half a century or more ago? By which, of course, I mean Communism.

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PS about Springsteen

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I did not mean to say that I am certain that Springsteen could in any way be described as a Communist. However, his bizarre selling of the Almanac Singers and his admiration for Zinn are two very sorry straws in the wind; at the very least, he is influenced by things that tend in that direction.

As for Guccini, he is too great a man to make a good Communist; and he believes in God; but on the other hand, his signature tune in every concert is La Locomotiva, which is quite literally an anthem to terrorism and to the murder of innocents by the hundreds in the name of "proletarian justice"; and he wrote a song in praise of Che Guevara.

Re: PS about Springsteen

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His political views are the reason that I will never buy his music in a form that benefits him. I will listen to him on the radio, and buy his music second hand (someday, when I have the money that is left over after spending it on artists that I want to support).