Here’s our new national song, comrades!
September 16th, 2008 at 09:03pm Chuck Sweeny
I am hereby abolishing the national anthem and celebrating our new socialist financial republic with the old chestnut, which you might have heard (in Russian) if you saw the 1981 movie “Reds” with Warren Beatty. (Someone corrected me.) It’s “The Internationale.” If you’d like to listen to it, I suggest checking out this website:
Here’s the first verse:
Arise, you prisoners of starvation!
Arise, you wretched of the earth!
For justice thunders condemnation:
A better world’s in birth!
No more tradition’s chains shall bind us,
Arise you slaves, no more in thrall!
The earth shall rise on new foundations:
We have been nought, we shall be all!
‘Tis the final conflict,
Let each stand in his place.
The international working classs
Shall be the human race
‘Tis the final conflict,
Let each stand in his place.
The international working class
Shall be the human race
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6 Comments Add your own
1. Tony Garcia | September 16th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
While I’m sad about our slide into socialism, before Will Pfeifer mentions it, I think it was Warren Beatty who did “Reds.”
2. Alan | September 16th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Chuck, your political astuteness is keener than your movie stars. It’s Warren Beatty, not Redford, that starred in “Reds.”
3. hokumboy | September 17th, 2008 at 7:38 am
No Chuck,
Under Socialism the average citizen sees some value for his contribution. We’ve gotten no Health Care, State paid education, or care for the elderly. No, at least under Socialism we’d see some benefit from our money. I’ll take Socialism over this crap any day of the week.
4. John Biltmore | September 17th, 2008 at 8:42 am
Chuckles,
I guess for things one doesn’t understand, one turns to flippant commentary. The Fed decided that AIG was (in the words of another blogger, the Big Picture) too big to fail…i.e. the consequences of a failure were so far reaching around the world — “substantially higher borrowing costs, reduced household wealth, and materially weaker economic performance” — that it justified the intervention. I guess one could argue that this is a “socialist” policy but it seems to make practical sense…would you care to endure a depression for the sake of capitalist purity?
5. Chuck Sweeny | September 17th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Mr. Biltmore:
OF course I understand what’s going on. I think it’s hysterical to hear Sean & Rush & Co., prattling on about the virtues of free market capitalism when it’s obvious that we don’t have any such thing, and wouldn’t dare to try it because of the very kinds of collapses we are seeing on Wall Street. Read my column from Tuesday’s paper.
Realists understand we have a mixed economy, and always have had.
One could argue, as the anonymous Hokumboy does, that under true socialism we would have health care and other benefits of the European style social welfare state. This is, you could say, socialism for the ruling class. SAME AS IT EVER WAS.
6. Chuck Sweeny | September 17th, 2008 at 8:59 am
Alan,
Thanks for the catch. I’ve corrected it in the post, and noted same.
This is why Will does the movies..
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