laibach - the limitations of questioning radical activity

Having looked at youtube links to understand exactly what Laibach was all about - as the reading alone was not quite explicit enough for me.. I really enjoyed it.

I really enjoyed the humorous irony evident in their work, the explicit questioning of authority and the ridiculing of a type of masculinity within this. I like the way they use a ridiculous pop culture to bring to a public's attention a critical engagement with ideas of socialism, democracy and facism.

The following comment in "Foreward: they moved underground" I find somewhat irritating : "Is there in our cynical "postmodern" idelogical" universe, still a place for a Laibach type intervention, or is such an intervention immediately "co-opted" neutralised?"

I find this line of questioning irritating because it implies a need to be thinking one step beyond the state/ capitalism, something we can't control. There are many form of resistance which have been co-opted, this doesn't mean they failed. In many ways I think it's speaks to their success, that the state or capital felt they need to over take them. But we then move on to do other things. Nothing should be still. The good thing about working in a decentralised collective is that you have the capacity to be flexible and experiment with new forms of resistance. So the question for me "should we do this? - it might get co-opted" is a complete waste of time. The state/ capital does have a large capacity to co-opt all sorts of things, but if we define our activities in this way we limit ourselves and our expression.