A review of Gabriel Kuhn’s book, “Sober Living for the Revolution”.
by Stefanie Knoll
Kuhn, Gabriel, ed, 2010, Sober Living for the Revolution. Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics, Oakland: PM Press, 299 pages, ISBN: 978-1-60486-051-1, US $ 22.95
I learned about Gabriel Kuhn accidentally – a comrade of mine met him at the London Anarchist Bookfair in 2009 and told me about this book on his return to South Africa. Excited about the book, I googled it and discovered that Gabriel was not only born in the same small town as I was – Innsbruck in Austria – but that he’s also an anarchist (there aren’t many in Innsbruck) and also straight edge (there are only three of us in Innsbruck as far as I know)! Excited as I was about this I got in touch with him and, after some e-mails sent back and forth in our Alpine dialect, he sent me a free copy for review, something which I must say I’m very happy to be able to do.
For an apparent communist you seem to be very keen to draw attention to your elitist – and entirely irrelevant – small town upbringing and ability to communicate in a dialect. I suggest you re-read your Lenin