Wednesday, January 20, 2010

*Songs To While Away The Class Struggle By-Blind Alfred Reed's "How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live"

Click on the title to link to a "YouTube" film clip of Bruce Springsteen performing Blind Alfred Reed's "How Can Poor man Stand Such Times And Live".

In this series, presented under the headline “Songs To While Away The Class Struggle By”, I will post some songs that I think will help us get through the “dog days” of the struggle for our communist future. I do not vouch for the political thrust of the songs; for the most part they are done by pacifists, social democrats, hell, even just plain old ordinary democrats. And, occasionally, a communist, although hard communist musicians have historically been scarce on the ground. Thus, here we have a regular "popular front" on the music scene. While this would not be acceptable for our political prospects, it will suffice for our purposes here.

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