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Influence on society

Punk songs were often famous for their anti-establishment and liberal charge, which went from advocating of civil rights to communism to anarchy. Bands defended total freedom and human rights, standing against homophobe, racism or sexism. They believed in anarchies and communist systems and rejected capitalism. The climax of the anarchic point of view in punk would come with the Sex Pistols and their songs ‘Anarchy in the UK’ and ‘God Save The Queen’.

Straight Edge could be understood as the opposite to ‘Sex, drugs and rock n’ roll’. Its participants refrain from drinking alcohol, taking any kind of drug, eating meat or having casual sex. A good quote to show this ideology would be Henry Rollins’: ‘If you hate your parents, the man, or the establishment, don’t show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do’.

Liberal Political Stances

Straight Edge

Punk, as it was really anti-consumerism, adopted pretty quickly a Do It Yourself tendency. This ethic promoted the idea of creating new things with your own resources and it is what punks did was a ‘self-reliant production, advertisement, and performance of music’.

The idea that nowadays still remains is that of rejecting authority and the establishment. Nonconformism is really important in order to inspire the youth to make their own decisions and fight for equality and freedom. ‘Punk is often labeled as corruptive, but if it motivates the generation that is inheriting the world to stand strong on their own against adversity, then so be it’.