7 Jun
2002
7 Jun
'02
5:22 p.m.
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 18:24:24 -0400 (EDT) Ken Waxman wrote:
I think you'd find that most of the initial European improvisers like Bailey, Prévost, Parker, Oxley, Watts, Stevens, Rutherford, Brötzmann, Schiano, Van Hove et. etc. would describe themselves as socialists, a perfectly respectable word in Europe, and Canada come to think of it.
Only a couple may have been communists. But recall that in Europe that party is legal and participates in the electoral process as well.
Tim Hodgkinson (Henry Cow) was (still?) communist, and I had the feeling that he was not the only one. Keith Rowe seemed also of the left of the Socialist party (but a party can accomodate various extremes :-). Patrice.