What made this music culture so positive was its capacity to express negativity – a negativity that was thereby de-privatised as well as de-naturalised.
You choose your leaders and place your trust
As their lies put you down and their promises rust
For class consciousness is never a mere matter of identifying a state of affairs that already exists. The making visible of the structures that produce subordination immediately de-naturalises those structures, and changes the way in which subjugation is experienced. When that learned sense of inferiority is rejected, who knows what can happen?