Anyone can do it: empowerment, tradition and the punk underground

For more than three decades, a punk underground has repeatedly insisted that 'anyone can do it'.

This underground punk movement has evolved via several micro-traditions, each offering distinct and novel presentations of what punk is, isn't, or should be.

Underlying all these punk micro-traditions is a politics of empowerment that claims to be anarchistic in character, in the sense that it is contingent upon a spontaneous will to liberty (anyone can do it - in theory).

How valid, though, is punk's faith in anarchistic empowerment?