Get You Back Home
Manifesto
The ASSOCIATION OF MUSICAL MARXISTS was founded by Andy Wilson and Ben Watson after being subjected to a thirty-minute eternity of Bourdieu-style ‘objective’ sociology of music at the recent Historical Materialism conference.
Sick of being treated like party-spoilers, soppy mystics and ‘undertheorised’ unprofitable scum the devotees of truth in music have decided to stand up and make themselves heard.
WE are no longer going to sit on our hands and bite our tongues
WE are going to proclaim our proclivities as the cosmo-biologico-social necessity they truly are
WE are no longer prepared to tolerate boring music and lying hacks 'for the good of the cause'
WE shall embrace great music regardless of genre as the pattern for reshaping humanity and the key to the dialectic
For US, music is a test of you and everything about you, and if you fail that test YOU ARE THE ENEMY!!!
We are no longer prepared to be herded in a shtetl marked Art or Noise or Avant-garde: we are talking about music, the last location of 'soul' in modern man, the royal road to a satisfied subject and an engaged species being. Our first requirement for anything we take on board is that it's REVOLUTIONARY.
Hence, we loved to hear Tony Cliff harangue the throng; and we love to read Society of the Spectacle - however 'contradictory' that sounds to the accountants of political reason. But how come Cliff professed himself 'deaf' to music? Worse, why did Guy Debord never make public his enthusiasm for the music of John Coltrane and Archie Shepp? For us, late ‘Trane is a PLAN OF ACTION, A PRINCIPLE OF LIFE and a CRITICISM OF BUSINESS AS USUAL. We leave the candyass professionals of music commentary to stew in their own duplicitous juices: we shall take the burning zeal instigated in us by Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram and use it to revive a tired Marxism, make new friends, create disorder on the streets and bring down the ConDem government. Come and talk to us where you see the AMM banner.
xi-2010