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Their music most often sucked, but Zack de la Rocha had a solid anarchist theoretical base to his rock and roll. Anarchy is not nihilism as you've meant it, but still.
FWIW, I never bought de la Rocha's act. If he was who he claimed to be, he wouldn't have cashed those checks from a major label (multinational company)
de la Rocha was just dumb. A lot of dumb people hate the world because they have problems rationalizing things.
i.e. Every self-proclaimed radical in my city, and probably most other cities as well. Richmond has the worst I've ever seen, though.
Rubbish. Anyone could at one time or another an can be called "dumb hating the world because they have trouble rationalizing.." including all of us here who post on Obner. Anarchism could be a thoughtful theoretical approach to seeing ways to free the publilc sphere (Bakunin, Kropotikin) or simply sloppy thinking and reactive politics. Saying "all self-proclaimed radicals.." are one way or another is similarly sloppy essentialist thinking.
De la Rocha was not the sharpest arrow in the quiver and probably was hypocritical in many ways, but other that Jello Biafra, he was the most visible popular musician I know of who accessed established anarchist thought... which was what and why I introduced him here on this thread.
I just never really liked the music.
The music starts off as shit...
But then, because it is beloved by homophobes, skinheads, racists, shitty car enthusiasts, and general lowbrows worldwide, it takes a left-turn into cultural irrelevance and utter stupidity. It's "amp up" music for unqualified construction site laborers before that last hit of speed prior to just catching that last last bus to the Big Summer Festival (wooohoo), or before piling 7 deep into a station wagon to "totally crack that little faggot queer's skull" before he makes it to that party on friday night.
See also: Tool.