Talk:Rage Against the Machine

I wouldn't say the original version of the article contains any opinion; it's all incontrovertible fact (it's hard to deny their politics were both articulate and outspoken, and this isn't a comment on the "quality" or "correctness" of those politics). I leave the new stuff in, however, because it's useful information. I'm not sure about "hard left", however, I don't much like it as a term, and it's dangerous when left undefined. This is mostly a personal rant about the inadequacies of the "left wing / right wing" distinction, however. Would you agree with "radical" politics? /me goes to read the recent modifications to the article on radicalism to find out... --AW

Mysterious Fellow Editor, you happy with all this now? --AW

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Oooh, I get to be "mysterious". :)

If I say "Henry Kissinger is articulate and outspoken" I'm expressing my opinion, not stating a fact. While I, personally, agree that RATM was outspoken and articulate the encyclopedia is supposed to have a Neutral Point of View and only state really solid facts (like who the members are, how many records they sold). Anything else ought to be attributed to a source. Can't do much harm, anyway.

And I agree with you on "hard left", but I couldn't think of a decently concise way of stating it. I wanted to give a general idea of their political views, but I didn't know what to use. Meh.