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In the longstanding debate on rebetika, many Left-wing intellectuals became involved, linking music with the broader issues of the political and cultural struggle for hegemony. According to their view, popular music was expected to express the deeper social needs, feelings, and hopes of a militant proletariat and, at the same time, the virtuous inner self of the nation. In this way, the nostalgic attitude toward the romanticized national traditions of the race met the demand for a nobler type of popular song with a social content that expressed the nobility of the proletariat. Their analysis of texts about rebetika reveals traces of a theological faith in the advent of a utopian communist society and the potential role of the Marxist avantgarde in protecting people from the infectious forces of the capitalist “evil.” Rebetika, either as a whole or in its unhealthy aspects, was perceived as a controversial cultural product that was an obstacle to the class struggle that would lead to socialist transformation.

"Forbidden Fruits" and the Communist Paradise: Marxist Thinking on Greekness and Class in Rebetika