The black scene has no general political orientation and may even be classified as apolitical. Nevertheless, attempts are often made to push it into a political corner or to adopt it for a specific ideology. Most goths, of course, have a political stance or opinion - without direct reference to the scene - and clearly position themselves against this appropriation.
Since the 1990s, more and more resistance has been developing in the scene against the appropriation by right-wing ideologies. At that time, right-wing ideological tendencies were repeatedly suspected in the scene by the media or radical left-wing organisations because politically controversial artists like Von Thronstahl, Der Blutharsch or Blood Axis found stages and audiences in a smaller part of the scene. Right-wing media constructed a kind of kinship out of this and were enthusiastic that Goths were interested in this form of music.
In the mid-90s, this led to some initiatives within the goth scene that clearly opposed right-wing ideologies and rejected bands with a diffuse political background. Even though a large part of the scene members can be classified as politically uninterested, most of them move within a left-wing alternative ideology and strictly reject right-wing extremism, xenophobia and homophobia. Many also get involved against these phenomena, take part in demonstrations and participate in projects "against the right".
Therefore, uniforms, which often serve as a fashion accessory and are meant to provoke, are also met with rejection by most scene members. Not least because some uniforms serve a dark past - this time dark in a negative sense!
Although they have opposed political appropriation often enough in the past, the scene never tires of policing itself and opposing developments within it. Not in order to draw anyone to its political side, but to preserve the black shelter in which politics also plays no role.