This supposedly radical indie rock band just posted a 17 page screed against “authoritarian” communism with classic digs at China, the USSR, Stalin, and Mao plus Free Tibet nonsense. The reason for this post? Dubious claims that Stalin shot avant garde and experimental musicians with them citing Shostakovich and Ligeti, two composers who were never killed by the USSR, as examples lol
Their sole source, aside from telling people to google lol, is The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross
Disappointing to see several good musicians like this post though
yes our movement failed and the capitalists did destroy the planet, but at least nobody told anyone else what to do
Well, except for when they did