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The punk aesthetic is intertwined with the punk ethos. Corporations and mainstream media, and certainly the fashion industry, have attempted to appropriate and co-opt punk again and again, with the unacknowledged but entirely apparent goal of watering the punk movement down to an apolitical aesthetic. While punk-influenced fashion in itself is harmless, I do believe it is harmful to normalize the capitalist notion of punk as a fashion choice and nothing else. True punk rock is and has always been driven by a commitment to freeing oneself and society from capitalist, consumerist, conformist, anti-communist modes of doing and being. So yeah, yay, body mod and spiky jewelry and safety pins and ...