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 | | Politically they are staunch socialists, a stance inflected by their working class upbringing (they grew up during the Miners' strike of the '80s) and evidenced by their often highly politicised lyrics and their actions (they once dedicated an award to Arthur Scargill, leader of the National Union of Mineworkers and later the Socialist Labour Party). |
 | | The Manics aesthetic, especially in these early days, also strongly embraced a philosophy of sell out as freedom and liberation, that by exerting absolute freedom of will and by being honest about your past, present and future, mistakes and all, double standards and broken promises were nothing to be ashamed of. |
 | | For this reason, the Manics polarised opinion more than any other British rock band before or since, critics hated them for their allegedly superficial glamour, arrogant rock star posturing, aggressive intellectualism as well as a seeming lack of values and, to a certain extent, apathetic nihilism. |
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