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Zach de la Rocha is not a 'punk' per se but he most definitely embodies the attitude, RATM was a necessary band in the 90s to prompt a generation to take a more critical look at the society they lived in. that's what we're missing in the mainstream now, the attitude of not giving a crap either way about what you do and just doing it because it needs to be done.
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The ideology spouted by Rage Against the Machine did not prompt any "critical look at...society". I mean, apologetics for Marxist political theory and minority nationalist groups like AIM and the Black Panthers? That's tired politics; those ideologies were resounding failures when they crested in popularity (in the USA) in the 60s/70s. Not only that, but they shirked away from the most controversial aspects of their ideologies history (read: gulags, executions)....
RATM were a politically correct band, through and through. They were not critical, nor were they novel. They were simply trotted out a mutant form of the old and tired politics of a previous generation, a mutant form missing any substantially controversial aspects. Hence why you could walk into the mall and buy a CD of theirs.