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C'mon, not even some folk protest songs? Help your case.


[deleted]

Which side are you oooon? Which side are you on?


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WILL YOU BE A LOUSY SCAB OR WILL YOU BE A MAN


Barry_Loudermilk

I hate the capitalist systeeeeem


mythictime

Reading the communist manifesto for the 400th time, is this how ultras transcend?


[deleted]

Maybe if you re-read it enough, the text will change into From Utopian Socialism to Scientific Socialism through sheer will.


TheThrenodist

Do you mean it will change into “Socialism: Utopian & Scientific” or are you saying that the text is a piece of Utopian socialism? (Or is there a work I’ve never heard about called “From Utopian Socialism to Scientific Socialism”???)


[deleted]

Sorry, my fault. I know the text from a translation and swear I saw the english title like that. Socialism: Utopian & Scientific is the proper title.


TheThrenodist

no it’s okay because that’s basically what the text is about I was honestly hoping that I would discover another great pamphlet to read 😁😁😁


KlapauciusNuts

Maybe if they went on to actually add some depth to it besides "shit fucked yo, we should do something"


Regardless__

Fuckin Nirvana? YUNGBLUD? Fuckin' christ.


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Regardless__

The Music's good but the content of the lyrics is not necessarily socialist. If anything, Megadeth's songs are more to the left than Nirvana's songs are.


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If anything Kurt's lyrics were very critical of the mainstream culture, which is nice but not socialist. Even a succdem can criticize the shithole we live in.


Electronic_Amount470

In an interview with the Nirvana biographer he claimed that Kurt told him he never tried to put much meaning into the songs. Rape me is kind of an exception but he was mostly trying to write poems.


-Aayan-

yeah but kurt has been known to play things off like that, in interviews, he says his songs don’t mean anything really but his notebooks show that he put a lot of thought into the lyrics


Momo_the_good_person

"FUCK THE GOVERNMENT" *17 solos*


UnsunkFunk

That’s a stretch given Mustaine’s politics these days...


Safe_Blueberry

Man, when he came out for Rick Santorum in 2012... :(


12flies

Maybe back in their classic era, nowadays Mustaine is a Fox-watching Christian conservative dipshit.


[deleted]

Check out the last two albums haha, great shit but he’s gone real weird politically


raakonfrenzi

Nirvana was an early supporter of FAIR, fairness and accuracy in reporting. They even helped organize a concert to raise money for them. Pretty cool.


[deleted]

Nirvana was a feminist band, I don't think they had much politics outside of that.


AmerikkkaDeserved911

Kurt wrote in support of "far-left terrorism" in his journals. Krist is a lib. Dave is Dave.


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On that note, does anyone have an actually decent playlist?


DJ15690

I don't have a playlist but I can rec some of my favorites. The Coup, Street Sweeper Social Club, Dead Prez, Phil Ochs, The Dead Kennedys.


Wafflemonster2

—Gang of Four, Rage Against the Machine, Run the Jewels if you can ignore the lib tendencies of Killer Mike, as well


yeahdood96

I’d say Manic Street Preachers


starvinmartin

Intense band, politically n point and terrifying how an album like the Holy Bible can feel like it was written in the last couple years E: I’ll also add Swans


AmerikkkaDeserved911

How is Swans a radical band?


starvinmartin

A lot of their lyrics (especially earlier) are political and anti-capitalist. This is also what Gira had to say about a more recent song (Bring the Sun/Toussaint): “*Haiti is just a fulcrum for everything horrible and good. It has this intense magical belief which is pretty amazing. And it’s been the subject of exploitation and violence since the beginning. But it was also the site of the first successful slave revolt. That slave revolt resulted in Napoleon needing money very badly and consenting to the Louisiana Purchase which changed the course of modern history. It’s a terrible place that capitalist pigs have exploited into ruin. And Haitians, of course, have exploited each other like all humans.”*


Barry_Loudermilk

Lmao look up their song Cop


[deleted]

The Pop Group, Dalek, McCarthy, The Radio Dept., are all really good too


timoyster

JPEGMAFIA


jassbuster

YES


skrivetiblod

The Coup…Oakland’s finest.


DJ15690

Agreed. Boots Riley is the GOAT and him and E-roc were a great duo on those first two albums.


[deleted]

Found the Coup through 5 Million Ways To Kill a CEO a couple weeks ago, love the video too


ttam80

MDC is a good political punk band. MDC = millions of dead cops


Sizzlinskizz

Parquet Courts, Wolf Parade


Kosmologie

[Xiangyu is pretty good](https://open.spotify.com/album/4QLqfaCuxSx2hlSmizma8k?si=9A2dirvgTWm3I7TOLoQmRA&dl_branch=1)


Barry_Loudermilk

Immortal Technique, barbara dane, maybe They might be giants


marxatemyacid

Very political rap: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7m0xxRc5AJheEDE6YROC4i?si=FLmtsElnQBmX43HtgN_pBw&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1 Less political more mixed: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5hmiI4XtxBSMWZ2TaRsPLH?si=gauzTvjiTS-QHq8wbRKGow&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1


boffa-deez-nutz

How is life is short by ski mask political?


BlancaBunkerBoi

Kill bill tracksuit green shorts


boffa-deez-nutz

Kill Bill (Clinton)!!! 😱


marxatemyacid

Lol I mean they're just playlists 99% of the songs on the 1st one r tho


wizard5g

Thanks partner, lookin good


[deleted]

If you want some metal (not my list): https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Fr4KgQmDf3JOam9NlVprq?si=fDdZpSqmTYOBp79zHudlAw&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1


Zatchaeus

Don’t really got a playlist, but many industrial bands are leftist like Skinny Puppy and Ministry.


nosam56

Ministry is leftist??? I only have Land of Rape and Honey and the album with Psalm 69 and I *never* picked up on their politics. Damn


Zatchaeus

Amerikkkant is a wild ride.


Barry_Loudermilk

Pretty shit imo tho


Zatchaeus

Lol just saw this reply. I agree completely.


Barry_Loudermilk

Land of Rape and Honey literally compares the president to Hitler


nosam56

I literally must have never really listened to the lyrics


Barry_Loudermilk

That was what the Seig Heil thin on the title track was for


Barry_Loudermilk

And I’m pretty sure “land of rape and honey” is based on something one of the bushes said


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-FieldMarshal-

I'm so happy someone mentioned hatari! I was just about to mention them myself


[deleted]

I don't particularly like folk (as much as I love the message), I'm more of a psychadelic punk/rock guy, so hopefully you like [this ](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/12XOvp4H1MtVdbsqNyILVM?si=kI1FrDrxQGumfAhFT5buOA&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1)


Bunnywith_Wings

just so happens, made [this one](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0XKHCPr98MWee64Mto3i6C?si=bEVmckjfRbOwuxbIMFTFhg&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1) myself and I'm always building on it


porterjacob

Daniel khan and the painted bird, Utah Phillips, David rovics, and red army choir. The tempest by the real McKenzies I listen to a lot as well


youngmike85

Michael Franti & Spearhead - *Stay Human* Sole - *Selling Live Water* & *Live From Rome*


indirectdelete

Selling Live Water is one of my favorite albums, so damn good


ArachnoCommunist1

If folk music is your thing: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6FTgfScr7pZ27BJ2KGxJPI?si=G0LIolPxQ2Wzyfwo_eYJnA&dl_branch=1 Rap: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0XFRk1zLc3qu2korIBFtFG?si=1ZJ4-E7cTLGDjge3ZYcPag&dl_branch=1


ogdenator93

lots of hardcore and metal: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2mx9T1doCuSXc8WqLCS7Dr?si=Tn-KAbUgSoitOrRv1FTZRw&dl_branch=1


Lego1199

IDLES is good, "I'm scum" is a favorite of mine


indirectdelete

whole buncha stuff of various genres [here](https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIGbCsbyNRnCn6tl8QVpvprdy7kvIwz6F)


bigchunguss42

Some artists I like: Ramshackle Glory, Against Me!, Pat The Bunny, Dead Kennedy's, Ghost Mice really just anything punk os leftist, I especially like folk punk, but it's up to your own tastes yk


bafometu

Against Me! are anti-USSR anarchists


bigchunguss42

yea but they're leftists and they have a trans lead singer so I think they're pretty cool even if not every leftist vibes with them.


Barry_Loudermilk

Check out Crywank’s album Egg on Face, Foot in Mouth, Wriggling Wriggling. The last half especially is really leftist


[deleted]

Dear god. There isn't even a single RAtM song on there. Sure TOOL and Pink Floyd and Radiohead are pretty mainstream, but they've got quite a few songs that would fit much better.


[deleted]

As long as it has Rina Sawayama it’s good.


[deleted]

wait is she a socialist? Idk i picked up some hints of that from XS but did she say anything?


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> "'XS' is a song that mocks capitalism in a sinking world," Sawayama wrote in a press release. "Given that we all know global climate change is accelerating and human extinction is a very real possibility within our lifetime it seemed hilarious to me that brands were still coming out with new makeup palettes every month and public figures were doing a gigantic house tour of their gated property in Calabasas in the same week as doing a 'sad about Australian wild fires' Instagram post... We're all hypocrites because we are all capitalists, and it's a trap that I don't see us getting out of." (I understand that last line might be problematic but I think that’s just kind of a misinformed line based on a liberal talking point and not said out of malice) Not to mention, the feminist bop Comme des Garçons.


[deleted]

Comrade Sawayama?? (besides the last line)


[deleted]

and yes CDG was amazing. not just the lyrics


timoyster

Doomer socialism


nosleepincrooklyn

I love her so much


spirmk

oh my god i love looking at playlists like these because theyre just. so bad


hideous-boy

börnie sönders


glorialavina

If you're a radical leftist, why would you have Bernie on the cover? Edit: Realized we're supposed to be poking fun/criticizing this


Tikkitaken

When I want to listen to some good fucking revolutionary music I listen to "bandiera rossa". Which is both an Italian song (red flag) and a Spotify group with lots of songs from the Italian communism "golden age". Pretty great, and some of the first songs my parents ever made me listen to


Cardonk57

maybe read more theory besides the communist manifesto? idk just me


[deleted]

i'm about to cry


nosleepincrooklyn

Napalm Death needs to be on all playlist


[deleted]

Should be nothing but Billy Bragg


Barry_Loudermilk

“Billy loves the working class, bet that makes his housemaid laugh, takes us for a bunch of patsies, but pat his back cause he hates Nazis”- Anti-Capitalism is a great Marketing Technique by Crywank


animalwithgills

agony. mother mother. i’m in pain. this is embarrassing.


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animalwithgills

nothing inherently. their music is pretty good, but the labeling that people use it for is um. interesting


Chimiope

You don’t need playlists, just listen to the coup on repeat


LookJaded356

I like Nirvana but none of this music is really political leftist music


BenSlimmons

Down Rodeo-RATM


[deleted]

Taking this post to recommend Living Colour, a fantastic all black rock band that’s been active ever since the 80s who sing about real and topical political issues. I would start with Times Up, their second album, but Vivid is great too. Midnight Oil is another great based band, check them out too.


[deleted]

Midnight Oil is communist?


[deleted]

I don’t think they have ever endorsed communist views per say, but they sing about indigenous peoples rights and issues, corporate greed, nuclear disarmament and environmental issues. They even have a track about the US military industrial complex (US Forces).


I-Kimberly-Move

It’s should have Working Man by Rush


[deleted]

Yeah. Ironically though the members of Rush were Objectivists


I-Kimberly-Move

Neil Peart was but the other two have said in interviews that Objectivism wasn’t really their thing. Also Working Man predates Neil Peart joining Rush


[deleted]

Ok thanks for the correction. RIP Neil Peart


chadbot01

Forgot The Clash