I've seen some books that purport to try to "restore" the political foundation that "punk always had". It was a musical movement. A return to basics. In the 1960s, snotty angry young men could sing about things like the taxman but generally it was about a guy's girl leaving him or him dumping his nogood girl. Velvet Underground sang about drugs (as did other bands in the 1960s and 1970s punk).
MC5 were a rock and soul band who got co-opted by the White Panther Party (their management was into this) who played them up as political radicals but truth be told, they were the Monkees of the revolutionary movement and did not live the life.
Were Iggy and the Stooges political?
The Ramones were more about Dee Dee's hopeless life than politics (and band leader Johnny Ramone was and is a conservative Republican).
British punk co-opted the American sound (future members of the Sex Pistols and Clash were there when the Ramones played England July 4th, 1976).
Sex Pistol's manager, Malcom McClarean had made himself manager of the New York Dolls before he formed together his own band to manage. While he was manager of the Dolls, he made them dress in red uniforms and perform in front of Communist flags. The band knew that this wasn't what they were about.
Even Johnny Lydon was bored by the political posing by the Clash (he said that it was just grabbing pages from Marxist texts).
I'm curious why Viacom (the other major player in radio) would be advancing anticapitalist pied pipers when there are genuine musical performers out there who don't get a shot.
The leftist media has been stoking the fires of revolution in this country. The extreme left quieted down after 1992. In the late 1990s, they started to motivate against the WTO gatherings (and now G7/G8 gatherings). It is an international movement that the media is welcoming to our shores. I do not even understand why these troublemakers are granted visas.
The "antiwar" movement is just continued momentum for the same crowd. Some housewives and students don't realize who they are alligned with.