White Punks On Hope

They said that we were trash,
Well the name is Crass, not Clash.
They can stuff their punk credentials
Cause it's them that take the cash.
They won't change nothing with their fashionable talk,
All their RAR badges and their protest walk,
Thousands of white men standing in a park,
Objecting to racism's like a candle in the dark.
Black man's got his problems and his way to deal with it,
So don't fool yourself you're helping with your white liberal shit.
If you care to take a closer look at the way things really stand,
You'd see we're all just niggers to the rulers of this land.

Punk was once an answer to years of crap,
A way of saying no where we'd always said yep.
But the moment we saw a way to be free,
They invented a dividing line, street credibility.
The qualifying factors are politics and class,
Left wing macho street fighters willing to kick arse.
They said because of racism they'd come out on the street.
It was just a form of fascism for the socialist elite.
Bigotry and blindness, a marxist con,
Another clever trick to keep us all in line.
Neat little labels to keep us all apart,
To keep us all divided when the troubles start.

Pogo on a nazi, spit upon a jew,
Vicious mindless violence that offers nothing new.
Left wing violence, right wing violence, all seems much the same,
Bully boys out fighting, it's just the same old game.
Boring fucking politics that'll get us all shot,
Left wing, right wing, you can stuff the lot.
Keep your petty prejudice, I don't see the point,
ANARCHY AND FREEDOM IS WHAT I WANT!

By: Crass


I have never been a great Crass-fan. Their politics might have been something 30 years ago, but it has all become stale now. Plus they really remind me of all those 'holier than thou'-crusties. But this song... It is brilliant. The lyrics are brilliant. It really says something about the autonomous left and the antifa of today. They are gangs, who think that they fight for the working class. But they are just gangs, like all other gangs. If i remember correctly the Crips is an offshoot of the Black Panthers. It is just like that. The antifa look out for the antifa and imagine that that is the same thing as looking out for the working class (but you'll let the working class end up in the middle when you show your power). They are not fighting for a political vision (and they are very clear about that), they are fighting for their material gains here and now. And without the vision, that means nothing. So they mean nothing. Nothing more than "bully boys out fighting, it's just the same old game." One more gang to be scared of, one more group who think they have the right to have opinions about me.

Give it 15 years with the same lame ass nazis that we have now ('coz once there was a real reason for a violent antifa) and we'll see how political the movement is. It is all starting to look like Bandidos vs Hells Angels, and can someone really spot the difference between tose groups (apart from the vests, that is)? Yet, they are there as a reaction to eachother.

Anyone who thinks that violence is nothing but a last resort can fuck off. These people are against american foreign policy, but act just like the Bush-administration. Not just preventive strikes (like hitting someone before they hit you) but preemptive strikes (hitting someone so they don't dare hit you) seems to be perfectly acceptable. As long as you don't do it under an american flag.

No, now I got to go back to my bible studies.