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RedWorker
25th May 2014, 03:58
I'm not a Marxist-Leninist, but you may like this song:

(Note that the author of this song was given a two-year prison sentence (http://elpais.com/elpais/2014/04/01/inenglish/1396368922_728869.html) for "praising" "terrorist" groups in his songs).

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Translation of lyrics

Communist
Because of many things
Especially because after informing myself
I realized socialism is the only possibility for a large-scale change

We will not stop remembering the achievements of socialism
Which were many
Helping many

Communist like a Bolshevik, stabbing a Tsar
Because nobody has the right to exploit
Because socialism is a fundamental change
Not a band-aid for a injury which has to be healed

Communist like laborers occupying lands
Which they collectivize and dream about dead duchesses
Because land has to belong to the worker
We'll take it from the Sirs the good or bad way

Communist like Jose Manuel Sevillano
Dying in hunger strike without being a worm
Without receiving dollars in exchange like these mercenaries
Fuck you state, we won't let him be forgotten

Communist like Che, shot in the jungle
When he could have lived a burgeois life
He was the maximum expression of communism
Stick with his ideology or example, not his legend

Communist like Marx, while not being a worker
Fighting for the ones who broke rocks the whole day
The worth of his work is more than incalculable
And some still try to discredit him
Not wasting efforts, developing a theory
Which benefits the mass majority
Dealing a blow that the burgeois will never recover from
Earlier or later we'll smash their rotten moral

Communist like Lenin spending his whole life
On the weeping of the burgeois, the triumph of the working class
Stirring the masses with sharp speeches
Expanding the revolution from cities to fields
Spreading class conciousness, hate to the oppressor
It's the root to build a better world
With arguments he organized rage

Liberty is equality of opportunity
We will end with the "you have so much, you are worth so much"
Democracy is laws which serve the people
That's why I rebel against this outrage

Communist because metaphysics do not feed you
And a radical fundamental change, this needs
Anti-racists, anti-sexists; we request evolution
Scientific socialism; Marxism-Leninism

Communist like Stalin being the burgeois' terror
Putting a brake on reactionaries just like it ought to be done
Otherwise the nazis would have invaded them
You can't stop fascism by raising your hands
Exemplary leader; corrupts to the GULAG
Let the society of equality which he knew to lead come back
That's why today even with manipulation he still is
The hero for millions of Russians who want freedom

Without the capitalist yoke, without the ones who betrayed him
Kruschov deserves a Kalashnikov in the asshole
Today in Moscow, kids
Sleep in the streets, watching limousines pass by
The CIA applauds rich mobsters
Millions spent in anticommunist propaganda, there's the fraud
But many of us, we didn't believe their lies
We contrasted information and let their example live

Communist like Mercader executing Trotsky the rat
He belonged here less than a [supporter of the People's Party] in Donosti
Many capitalists talk wonders of him
Because they cannot fear his reformist tendency
They always paint Stalin as the bad guy
Because their privileges have been expropriated by the practice of socialism
Trotskyism is an instrument of imperialism
Fidel said it: They always sold communists out

Carrillo style, false transition [Spanish transition to democracy]
The Borbon's pathetic friend did not pay for his circus
Capitalism has never persecuted them
Because they need their scam, they're their most friendly part

Communist like Engels, who having capital
Refused being one more exploiter, and with Marx
Used his intellectual power to serve the hungry
Not to become rich at the expense of their suffering

Liberty is equality of opportunity
We will end with the "you have so much, you are worth so much"
Democracy is laws which serve the people
That's why I rebel against this outrage

Communist because metaphysics do not feed you
And a radical fundamental change, this needs
Anti-nazis, anti-capitalists; we request evolution
Scientific socialism; Marxism-Leninism

Communist like the glorious Red Army
With each song I honour them because
If we didn't have them maybe we'd be speaking German, with a raised arm
Their life they gave away for liberty
They cannot be forgotten, like every international brigade
Which came here to put a brake on the fascists
Hollywood does not dedicate films to them
Even though they're humanity's biggest heroes

Communist like Neruda and his song of praise to Stalingrad
A poet was each soldier murdered by the Nazis
Thanks to snipers like Ivan Sidorenko
More than 500 pigs fell under his rifle

Communist like Mao and his cultural revolution
No mercy to the one who wants to enslave the peasant
Even today he inspires several guerrillas
Which resist sewing for murderer corporations

It's sad that in China few follow his legacy
And the most wild capitalism has conquered them
Their communist party is as red as PSOE is socialist
They need another revolution
He said that an uprising is not a feast
It cannot be slow, refined and elegant
It is a violent act in which a class defeats another
We must continue fighting even if defeat is foreseeable

Power comes from the mouth of a gun
NATO knows it when they try to invade
Allende forgot it and without the left being armed
Pinochet gave a coup, covered by the White House

Communist like Vietnam kicking the United States
An example of what a people who fight can achieve
Not even Agent Orange could overcome their courage
Humiliation to every genocidial yankee who massacred innocents

Liberty is equality of opportunity
We will end with the "you have so much, you are worth so much"
Democracy is laws which serve the people
That's why I rebel against this outrage

Communist because metaphysics do not feed you
And a radical fundamental change, this needs
Anti-exploitation, anti-misery; we request evolution
Scientific socialism; Marxism-Leninism

mindsword
28th May 2014, 19:14
i dont get why he went to jail over a song...

and his spanish has a greek accent

DOOM
28th May 2014, 19:37
Cuba?
DDR?
Stalin?
"Exemplary leader; corrupts to the GULAG"

uh

DDR
29th May 2014, 18:22
i dont get why he went to jail over a song...

and his spanish has a greek accent

He's not the first, and he wont be the last. It's very common to find yourself in dire straits with the spanish justice if you make songs (or any other kind of art) that doesn't follow the oficial regime line. Eskorbuto, la polla records, soziedad alkoholica, lendakaris muertos, and countless others have been either put on trial or their concerts boikoted by the authorities.

As for the accent, he's catalonian so that may explain it.

RedWorker
29th May 2014, 20:16
He's not the first, and he wont be the last. It's very common to find yourself in dire straits with the spanish justice if you make songs (or any other kind of art) that doesn't follow the oficial regime line. Eskorbuto, la polla records, soziedad alkoholica, lendakaris muertos, and countless others have been either put on trial or their concerts boikoted by the authorities.

Not to mention the people literally jailed over writing one Twitter message, camarada, and the related media-terrorism campaign which has recently been used to put fear into people posting any anti-government messages on the Internet. :laugh: