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The idealist mould breaker
GREGOR GALL recalls the times and politics of the legendary Joe Strummer
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JOE STRUMMER, leader and lyricist for The Clash, died nearly 20 years ago. But his progressive political legacy lives on not just in his lyrics and what he said and did but, critically, in what he showed the left was possible.
Strummer showed us that culture can be consciously constructed in order to be used by the left to progress its own agenda.
He understood that most people come to an interest in – and commitment to – left-wing politics through life experiences and the influence of others – not a result of locking themselves away in their bedrooms to read volumes 1-3 of Das Kapital or by attending political meetings.
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