Wider and narrower senses of "progressive rock"

^^ That's what I am trying to say. Categorising anti-war or anti-big business positions as leftist is an American position. And the developed world as such has moved to the right since the 80s. I don't think the modern day Labour party is any more left than Democrats. Come to India and fossils like the CPM will remind you of what the left was like traditionally. Likewise Left is very strong in Latin America. And why am I applying the traditional left position to Rush? Because these songs were written in the 70s at the height of the Left. There is a book of Rand from the period where she laments that nobody wants to defend capitalism. Ahem, certainly not something that could be said today.

rogerthat wrote: Also, not to turn this into the libertarian thread,

Too late.

If Rush have politics it seems like Humanism more than anything.   I suspect the three of them would be chuckling at our attempts to interpret who they are and what their songs mean except in the most literal terms.

^ Then why don't you contact them and ask.   Otherwise you'll never know, and we'll keep having a circular and increasingly cloying debate.