Someone said in the comments to the video "This song is about solidarity of the proletariat, something that has faded from the 1950s onwards I love this song but I am saddened as the words are hollow in this day and age."
I totally agree. I don't think I'm all for communism, as my lot (and the rest of us liberal hippies) would be the first to go. I think it's hilarious that the privileged, intellectual, ivory tower dwelling white kids are the ones you'll hear spouting off the virtues of communism, while wasting time sipping coffee in some hip coffee house. I want to slap them. Clearly, they've never heard of the Cultural Revolution. I'm not stupid - I know bookworms like myself would be the first to go. Because in this country, if we've got the time to worry about class and social order, we're already bourgeois.
I do think some things about socialism are good though. It would be nice if people would think about one another as well as themselves. Unions, health care, fair wages - these sound like good ideas to me. I'm all for the Occupy Wall Street thing. But I'm not advocating taking to the streets in violence. I also think that a vast majority of the people occupying Wall Street haven't the foggiest notion why they are there, what they want, or how to go about getting it. I just think that it would be nice if everyone would start thinking about things instead of parroting the rhetoric of the party. I am far more a Labor Party member than anything I can find in the country. Rights for the working class, that's all I want. Is that so much to ask?
I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter.
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