Phil Ochs was another purist, and of course in the US he was considered a total commie not to be listened to. His ” Love me I’m a Liberal” was exasperating to us liberals needless to say, but still we remain “moderate”. Eschewing bloodshed and major disruption of society is to be praised as basically conservative in nature, which somewhat turns ideology on its head, but is true nevertheless. I refer everyone to the Civil Rights era for an example. The disruption and bloodshed came from opponents of the movement, not from the movement itself. Likewise the Viet Nam Antiwar movement.
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