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That's a puzzling saying because, unless memory fails me, no Americans fought at Passchendaele (Third Battle of Ypres, 1917). Close to 100,000 Canadians - but no 'doughboys'. So no one who might return to Pennsylvania from there. I can only suppose that the name had become a generic, symbolising pointless slaughter. In taking literally a few hundred yards of practically worthless territory, the 'winning' Allies suffered 275,000 casualties - about 50,000 *more* than the 'losing' Germans. My grandfather (English) got his ticket home after receiving multiple bullet wounds at Passchendaele. He'd been fighting since the first major battle of the war - Mons - three years earlier, and during Ypres I and II had already twice been hospitalised after being buried under masonry for 24 hours in an artillery strike and (separately) suffering lung damage during a gas attack. He died when I was quite a young boy, but not before impressing on me his assurance that there was nothing glorious about war.
@@jeff_underscore9244 choose to grow, boy. Out of daddy's house there's more than work. I'm grown enough to work and think at the same time, you're stuck at the thoughtless phase yet, aren't you?
The greatest Brazilian Educator Paulo Freire once said: "If education is not freeing, the dream of the opressed is to become the opressor" So it's very important that the liberators come well educated in order to avoid becoming what they vowed to destroy.
@@bhungaro1 I hope that the education doesnt make them more dangerous. Just look at american politicians. We are given the illusion of freedom and choice, yet are screwed all the same. At least in the soviet union, when the son of a shoe maker with no higher education came into dictatorship level power, everyone was able to see blatantly obviously how fucked the situation they had really was
I feel like the history of Harlan should be taught in all North America, to give insight into the working conditions and the worker vs company situation that often existed back in the early days of unionization. This coming from a Canadian who didn't know Harlan existed until after graduation
They wouldn't want to teach you how to resist them, now would they? There's a reason history is being taught in terms of individuals and events instead of classes and movements like "Hitler started WWII" and "Slavery ended with the civil war" instead of "The collapsing economy and struggle against unions made industrialists fund a fascist regime to feed them war profits at the expense of the working class" and "Slavery was made to be only legal as a punishment for a crime so the US owning class has since started arresting working class people, mostly black, so they can exploit their labor for free." An accurate telling of history would quickly show the class nature of it and the ability of popular movements to overthrow the ruling class. Ever notice how every socialist that gets democratically elected in latin america turns into a dictator all of a sudden? It's the only movement to threaten the ruling class. Anticommunist propaganda is fed to everyone in the first world/global north from birth so they don't see that they share a common goal with the guy in India who has to work inhumane labor so that the conditions in the first world are slightly more tolerable. I was honestly surprised how much more coherent this view of history is: www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/
As I am a man that resides in Harlan, I may stand a little biased, but I do agree with you. Even just reading about the unionization events that have taken place in Harlan County, it's raised attention to questions like, "Why isn't this talked about more?" It's an extremely interesting topic and it provides a lot of insight on how worker conditions should be VS how they are.
Most of these guys were veterans, they surrendered when the national guard arrived, they didn't have the strength to fire against men on uniform, they were fighting against thugs and corruption, not their country.
@@somefurryguy1811 And yet, 'their country' sent in armed forces to support and prop up said thugs and corruption. The thing is, its really not our country. The state exists to uphold the interests of the owner class, not to represent we the people.
@@Ashley-1917 The people are too dumb to govern themselves, there's a reason politicians exist, and there's a reason why corruption in capitalism exists. "The best argument against capitalism is a 5 minute chat with the average voter." -churchill IIRC Communism doesn't work either because well, same reason, people are dumb as fuck.
Me too, I’m on the side where workers are given their salaries for what they’re worth. Socialism is not the answer to fixing the mistreatment of workers problem.
The battle of blair mountain might have been a tactical defeat but it was definitely a sweet, sweet strategic victory long term. Modern Americans owe so much to the men who fought there, and yet we forget them.
I’ll never forget the brave souls that fought so hard for their rights on that mountain. I live around 10 miles away from the mountain myself and there’s not a day I don’t think about it
As a European, it's crazy to see how widely trade unions and labour movements are shunned and labelled as "communism" by a majority of people in the United States. In Europe our history of trade unionism is celebrated, or at the very least acknowledged as being one of the few reasons why we have the rights we have today as workers. So it's really interesting and refreshing to see a video like this celebrating the cause of American workers.
In germany unions had to fight like hell too, especially in the 20th century. If you are interested, there is a podcast called The Iron Dice, which is a storytelling of post WW1 germany, the workers uniting and having a standoff with the navi and so on. Really interesting stuff
It’s because liberty and the market liberal system was the basis of many of the values America was founded on. Hell, we even used “taxation without representation” as a revolutionary slogan, which even though it is referring more towards democracy you can still see the economic side of it. That compounded with the long-standing rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union (Cold War) where everybody thought that at any moment their whole family, livelihood, and country would be just ripped apart with the flick of a switch caused extreme vehemency towards anything related to labor unions or socialist movements. Just over all the propaganda and everything. Even though the Soviets collapsed some decades ago, the Red Scare really did a number on the US population, and that is still felt very strongly today. It was an era of misinformation, distrust, blind patriotism, and overall many bad choices. It was truly a disaster on the political scene. People today wonder why so many Americans are scared to even touch labor/welfare policies, but when you are told as a child that these evil meanies over in another country, who are also often portrayed as the bad guys in popular media, are going to murder every single person you love over some political views, you’d have a hard time trusting anything related to those political views. Even if they’re just a tiny bit similar. Now I’m not arguing against those, I’m just merely providing some context to why much of the US populace feels very alienated towards those types of values.
Depends on what you mean by "better" A white supremacist probably thinks that he is making his nation better, but does not make him a true patriot, since his ideas go against the values and ideals the united states was founded on, the same can be applied to the socialists since one of the core american values is private property
@@jasperthe3393 no, you haven't heard of it before. You wouldn't be able to recognize a merge between socialism and nationalism, nor would you be able to define ηαzifαscism
Yep, the unions in West Virgina lost most of their battles, so they aren't very well known even within the United States. They did eventually get their unions after the federal government passed laws allowing them to, but it was all for naught because the mines mostly closed soon after. The same fate has befallen most industrial centers of the country, with companies closing old union factories and opening new ones overseas or in other parts of the country such as the south, which don't any union culture to speak of.
@@raemmio2761 Labor unions in the US were at their most powerful in the 1950s. Labor unions didn't diminish in the US due to the 'Red Scare.' There are scores of other reasons behind the decline.
@@savage7882 I don’t know why you brought up that unions are in capitalist countries since capitalist hate unions. As unions usually take away profit from the capitalist. Why do you think Starbucks broke multiple laws to Union bust, or amazon, etc. Saying unions weren’t socialist or communist is just plain dumb since while everyone doesn’t need to be a socialist to be in a union, socialists will definitely join in order to change things for the worker. Unions are made to counter the capitalist’s agenda.
There was a television show and it didn't really tell audiences what it was going to be about, but I paused it as my husband and I speculated and we saw the datline was Harlan County. Oh. Well, that's a clue.
A human, has a right to live as a human being and must be treated as such! Long live the friendship of the people! peace to you worker, Wherever you are!
You know I always heard the kind of “our voices will be erased and forgotten” sentiment in movies and TV, and for the most part those seemed theatrical, since the sentiment was uttered by those who currently are not critically disenfranchised or not disenfranchised at all, like the ones who claim “the woke mob is coming after people like me”. But here, these people, the unions, those who stood with the workers and labor movements, their plight has been forgotten. Truly. American capitalism has perfectly succeeded in their mission. They completely eroded any class consciousness in the citizenry, pitting one worker against another, and even being upheld by the same workers for being their lords and receiving absolutely zero real repercussions for greedily racking up more and more profits generated by the efforts of the working class. The hopes of millions of souls who yearned for a better future have now been squandered, and we barely even bat an eye
I’m very conservative, but after I just saw a commercial by Amazon saying “our workers aren’t underpaid! They are paid 7 dollars an hour 🙂.” And so I had to come to this video and think about what I just heard
Being conservative doesn't mean you are automatically a capitalist. You can be a community but still an ultra capitalist like China. Capitalism is more of an economic than a political agenda. You might just been influenced by cold war US propaganda when in fact European countries are social democrats.
@@alimohammad1934 China is socialist. Also, capitalism is an economic. The idea of being a conservative is literally about capitalism, and conservative ideology is built around tradition and capitalism
@@irishb4stard886 They say they are communist but in practice the government has adopted capitalist ideas and is more like a state capitalist dictatorship.
"На чьей ты стороне?" - Песня американских социалистов. Соберитесь, добрые рабочие, У меня для вас благие вести, О том что к нам прибыл старина Союз... На чьей ты стороне? На чьей ты стороне? Мой папка был шахтёром, А я шахтёров сын И я буду с Союзом до полной победы На чьей ты стороне? На чьей ты стороне? Говорят в Округе Харлан нет нейтралов: Ты или человек Союза или головорез Д.Г.Блэра На чьей ты стороне? На чьей ты стороне? О, рабочие стерпите ли вы? Ох, скажите как сможете вы? Вы будете дрянными штрейкбрейхерами Или будете вы мужчинами? На чьей ты стороне? На чьей ты стороне? Не ломайте стачки ради боссов, Не слушайте их ложь. У нас, бедного народа нет шанса если мы не организуемся! На чьей ты стороне? На чьей ты стороне? На чьей ты стороне? На чьей ты стороне?
I love how you can see the differences between leftist music in different countries, and how they highlight the different situations socialist movements face ex: Russian socialist music is triumphant, for the revolution has gained control of the state hopeful for a revolution
Communism, Socialism, call it what you like. There's very little difference in the two. In communist countries there's nothing called "striking". Work until you die, all in the name for your "honourable chairman". Communism has never worked, and never will. Communism is supposed to care for the workers, but in reality it does the exact opposite.
@@somerandommen Basically yes, it all comes down to greed in the end. As with all dictators, they tend to get a bit crazy once they get the power. It just so happens to be that Communist states statistically have had more ruthless dictators than any other state. People tend to forget that stalin killed way more people than hitler ever did. Based on ethnicity and race too, just like Hitler. And Xi Jinping is doing the same with the Uyghurs. The standard of living seems to be a lot higher in Capitalist states for some reason.
@@mariogeorgiev3085 And the way i see it, authoritarianism is a part of the communist ideology. Since all communist states that have ever lived looked the same in the construction of who's in charge. I'm willing to reconsider my political beliefs when i'm sure that we don't give all the power to some dictator that will bring down the standard of living to rock bottom overnight. There has been way to many unsuccessful communist dictatorships, and i don't want my country to become a part of that list anytime soon. The only solution i see is to reconstruct the communist ideology in order to prevent the things that previous communist states has failed so miserably at. But for the time being, i will stick to democracy and well tested methods that have been proven to work in the long run.
@@fatmanbatman9374 yes, but that's not how easy and simple it is dude. i don't know what type of socialist or whatever you are, but other ideologies say the exact same thing. fascism, democracy, communism, socialism, nationalism, they all usually say the group is better than the individual, but each goes about doing it in a very, very different way. also, what do you expect to achieve by saying it's from a hoi4 mod? it's still a stupid quote regardless.
@@florpyjohnson9531 What did it do to east Germany? A large percentage is still socialist, even tho the GDR was corrupted socialism. But the people who lived there have not forgotten that the life of the average was better back in the GDR. I know a lotta people who lived there and say so. Even though things went really wrong for different reasons, everything truly socialist what has been done in the GDR had good and not bad consequences.
My father was born to a miner in Harlan County itself. We don’t live further than a half hour’s drive from it today. Things have changed and stayed the same. Miner’s exploitation has ended because there are no more mines. Now everyone’s unemployed and it’s rather hopeless. America thinks we are right wing nazis who hate racial and sexual minorities, but the people here that came before were the ones who fought at Blair Mountain against the Companies and their goons from Sheriff J.H. Blair and the Baldwin-Felts group. We’ll accept any system, especially a left-wing one, so long as the traditions here are held in equal importance to the progression of rights and the justice for all people. Many here simply fear and feel threatened by the call to destroy tradition by the modern left, who focus more on social change rather than economic change. I’ve never been much on left-wing philosophy because of a modern day neoliberal focus on temporary change instead of change that will benefit all in the long term and the tendency for socialist regimes to collapse and kill its own people, but I’ve turned to it to a degree seeing the effects of the current system and the signs that it is going down a very dark path. Hopefully we can make positive change before this system finally hits a wall and takes everyone down into the abyss with it. God bless America, God bless those who fight with the little man, and God bless all of you around the world.
Indeed, the modern left is a disgrace. As you said, "The traditions must be held in equal importance to the progression of rights and justice for everyone" I very much agree with you and simcerely hope to see a change as soon as possible comrade.
You work hard, you produce a great surplus for them and they pay you as little as they possibly can. You receive a FRACTION of that surplus value. They do nothing but sit around and wait for the money that YOU generate with your labor. And they have the AUDACITY to call YOU the *parasite* if you DARE to ask for more of that surplus value YOU created! The fucking nerve!
The fucking audicity of Capitalists to say the havenoughts have enough! People are refusing ambulances, doctors are putting their hands in your pockets to see your wallet to know what sort of healthcare treatment you should get, not to mention nobody nowadays are paid not enough, not even just the thin crust to live in this backwards ass economy. I am fucking waiting for that trickle that Reagan had promise, but it seems like a cat has gotten too fat, and he doesn't understand who has the bargaining power!
Now is that a criticism of communism or far right capitalism? Trick question. Both do that. _The difference is communism has the little added problem of the government brainwashing everyone else to beat you to death for speaking your mind even though deep down... they know it's true._ _Is it any wonder the further towards any ideological extreme you go, the more they demonize centrist positions and moderators?
@@pittraider1221 LOL if you thought the 'conservatives' are for 'small' government, how come the patriot act exists? how come we were in an unpopular war for 20 years?
Unions are the only way power is equal among authority and workers. Here In Australia our unions are what got us 401k, Medicare and good economic freedom!
From the commencement of the titanic American strife the workingmen of Europe felt instinctively that the star-spangled banner carried the destiny of their class. The contest for the territories which opened the dire epopee, was it not to decide whether the virgin soil of immense tracts should be wedded to the labor of the emigrant or prostituted by the tramp of the slave driver? -Karl Marx to Abraham Lincoln January 28, 1865
As a leftist from a latin american country, we tend to build up rage towards the USA in general, but we always must remember to blame their government/bourgeoisie for their crimes, and not their citizens. Americans workers are also being exploited and they'll always be our brothers.
@@shelkton.7991 You cant order shit. They exploit you just like they exploit everyone else. You buying into american nationalism hurts you more then anyone else
@@bubbadeaux9625 who seid I want the power?? I am around a libertarian socialist who wants to put power in the worker and poeple in a council or union not a dictator or a authoritarian democracy? Not all are hungry some like to calm it instead
This has a distinctly American feel. Not only the music (which is very American sounding) but I love how unique the American brand of socialism (true socialism, not liberal wannabe socialism) is. It somehow manages to combine socialism with the American individualist spirit. “Will you be a lousy scab or will you be a man?” I’m a centrist but I just had to admire that.
@@capitalism3720 As centrist, I'll admire you too. I personally have doubts on capitalism due to exploitation and corrupt, unfathomable greed. I don't mind being rich, but if you're a filthy rich person and spend your money on useless things instead of using it to benefit your country/people. But at the end, I can respect capitalism
not trying to start an argument here. just wondering what you think a good example, besides what you've already said about american socialism, of a "true socialist" society. a lot of people criticize the USSR, and in response a lot of the time the socialist responds with "it wasn't real socialism", or "real socialism has never been tried." which i think is really stupid, why do you support an ideology that we don't even know works yet, an ideology that people tried hard to achieve and yet failed?
It seems like becoming a Socialist automatically grants you a great taste in music and the ability to create music that is absolute poggers to listen to
@@toasterbath8633 you dont Like capitalism yet Bench appearo said communism is when the government does karl stalin no food gulag china... Care to explain?
*The Hall Presidency* "We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old, For the union makes us strong" - A Traditional Folk Piece *Solidarity Forever*
I am not a communist. I am not a socialist. To some extent, I am even a greedy, selfish man who never had to work a day in his life to survive. But even I understood something about capitalism when I actually read and not just quoted Adam Smith and other great economic theorists. We made a terrible mistake in allowing this system to become a global ideology that is so far removed from any of the original intentions. This system isn’t broken, it was never intended to be implemented in the way it was. It works exactly as the people who changed the original intentions hoped it would. I know which side I am on.
If capitalism is kept from being back like oppression of the industrial revolution where the federal government wasn't keeping rights and fair wages, then its cool
No, it is working exactly as intended. What you are seeing right now in our national and global economy IS capitalism. Capitalism is about the private ownership of the means of production. Whenever you enforce property law, you are giving HUGELY outsized power to a very small group. This small group uses their power and money to lobby (bribe) politicians into making the state serve their interests. This is what capitalism always turns into. Whenever workers get any kind of small concession like union rights, higher wages, healthcare, or pensions, they are always clawed back by the capitalists through different means such as eliminating or defunding social programs, sending labor overseas, or cutting back union laws. Since the 70's, wages for the bottom 90% have stagnated, and union membership has fallen drastically. This is how it has been for the entire history of capitalism and the state, and it will always be that way as long as the capitalists are in power.
@@nashestylez Exactly lol, it's actually a shame since if you don't mention the word socialism people usually support most socialist policies but once you use the scary word it pushes them away.
Gotta love how literally the whole political spectrum is in the comments, and for once, they aren't arguing, it's tear inducing in it's beauty, because let's be honest, while the song was made by a socialist, it was to poke at very, VERY manipulative and borderline malicious people who put lives over profit, which is bad even for all but the harshest of the capitalistic parts of the spectrum. Because the old mining companies from before the great depression and somewhat up to the 50's, were absolutely horrific with what they gave their miners. It goes to show that people forget not everyone on the opposite side of the spectrum is a bad person, as they can all agree on when something is truly evil, it's the radicals of each side which tend to be the worst, you can be on the farthest sides of the spectrums, but not be a "radical." Once you start putting things over the value of human life and progress, that's when you transfer from someone who is good, to a political radical. People can be Fascists' can be good people, fascists wanted a united nation with workers who all helped serve a good cause of bettering the world around them, radicals twisted those goals during WW2 to make it for something worse. People can be Communists and be good people, communists wanted an equal world, where all people receive equal compensation for their jobs and to a point equal rights, in modern socialism, completely equal rights. People can be Capitalists, and still be good people, wanting workers to actually try and giving incentives for better work, creating innovation through competition and forcing advancement. People can be Libertarians and still be good people, wishing for equal rights and to maintain liberties for the people. There is a good moral ground behind almost all political ideologies, it comes down to interpretation of good and bad based on the moral compass of the person, studies of the past, what they believe is correct, it's not a simple as red bad, blue bad for example, which sadly many people make their whole personality now adays. But even among the hatred of some of those types of people that DO believe that, even they can admit that J. H. Blair and the Blair Mountain incidents were horrific. J. H. Blair is one of capitalisms finest examples of radical belief, having civilians killed just on the thought of wanting better living conditions if he found out they had those. No single side of history's political systems doesn't have stains on it, from people who either exploit it, or people who radicalize it. Honestly it feels like today that choosing a "group" to adjoin to is, rather useless honestly as everyone has their own interpretations, wishes, morals, and wants of that system, which was always meant to run like a well oiled machine, the problem with all government systems, even anarchy, is people always believe that the utopian idea at the top will be their victory over the other, rather then to sooner console with others and patch up the broken bonds of simply being fellow humans, naively believing others inferior for thinking that because someone else has different morals and wants. Yet, still, even beyond that, those people can admit what is truly horrific, all coming together as one to agree that horrific things can be done by any side, even their own. There is no real good or bad, it's all subjective, in the hands of the people to decide, and everyone can decide how bad this was on almost equal terms. I hope I put into words something that people struggled to find words for until reading this, brought a smile to someone's face, or a thought of realization to someone who was slowly radicalizing themselves, if my words reach that person, please don't forget your fellow man, that if one day you find yourself wishing others harm or death just for having different wishes then your own, please don't forget that man has a mother, a father, and family as well, they are human, just like you, not a monster, do not dehumanize your enemy, for that makes it easier to wish them death or harm, but make them realize that you are both human. That you are both people, born, raised, with families who would cry for them just like your mother would cry for you at your funeral if you died before she ever did. I'll stop typing now, but, I hope I brought a nice realization to someone and maybe a smile in realizing not all hope in this world is gone.
Because this song hits everyone it hits confederates because it’s anti federals it hits liberals because it’s about oppression it hits conservatives because it’s anti government it hits commies because it’s about worker taking over and it hits nazis because well it’s about workers taking over
My friend, that was a good speech. I find it amazing you were able to mold a song about the Harlan county labor war into something that explains humanity in a good way.
I've always been into the political compass as well as 8 values. I agree with what you say that all ideologies are based on a personal moral compass. personally if it was me, I believe that the best value to classify someone would be a spectrum of just and unjust. Simply put we would see that among those you call friends, in whom company you enjoy, you would have a similar view with morals, what is right and what is wrong. Also seen is that neoliberal elites and a majority of upper class individuals would be in the unjust, whether from sinning or from breaking laws, hence why neoliberal elites are very not-cool. Personally as for the individual, rather than polcom or 8values, the best way to identify a politically associated friend is to find the 1 or 2 main values you care about the most at that moment. For myself on polcomp that would be authoritarian, for 8values that would be nation+ authority. Sure someone may have completely different views than me in all aspects other than those 2, but if those are the only ones I care about what does it matter. Recently I have been looking into Józef Piłsudski, a major unit for the 2nd polish republic, anyways before poland became poland again after ww1, he was in the socialist party, of course he wasn't socialist but he worked with the party as that was his best option for reaching the goal of a 'non-domesticated poland'.
"there's no real good or bad, it's all subjective" No, I would say that the capitalists are objectively evil and worse ones and not the worker's movements lmao. The capitalist system is inherently monopolistic and oppresive
America will never be based. They have attached their nation to neoliberalism and capitalism. If they become "based", they would stop being America, which honestly I wouldn't care at all if the US is gone.
Seeing american and socialist in the same sentence still feels weird for me,but is a good thing knowing we have brothers everywhere,even in the most capitalist place in the world.
The American government is very capitalist, but the American people have had a long history of unions and socialist movements (especially before 1940s). It’s just that it has all been buried due to the Red Scare and the Cold War.
In the late 19th and early 20th century the US was one of the most socialist countries in the world and was seen by many as the socialist counterpart of Russia which was seen as the opposite of that. Which is kind of ironic considering where they would end up. But the most important thing is that the US wasn't always the hyper capitalist nation we have today. Socialism is a core part of the US identity and played a significant role in shaping it. It's just that moneyed interests have changed education and history books to downplay the role that socialism and the unions played.
In the turn of the 20th century the US was one of the most socialist countries in the world with the anti-socialist crusade being led by Russia. Which is ironic seeing where they would end up half a century later.
- The Hall Presidency - "We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old For the union makes us strong" - A Traditional Folk Piece ---- Solidarity Forever ----
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This what jeff bezos sees in his nightmares
We should let him see it in the waking world
@@cam4636 agreed, the greed must be burned, hail internationale
@@andrea_ottaviano_augusto88 And how he treats his employees
Or Potanin
😂😂😂😂
There are communists, Republicans, confederates, syndicalists, socialists, democrats, libertarians, and nazis just in this comment section.
@KebabToastWaffle Ahh I see you're a man of culture as well
@Kröger I assume you are referring to what we in the HOI4 community refer to someone as a Wehraboo.
Well, I’m a Monarchist.
im a libreterian yessir
And at least one monarchist because of me
I once saw a comment that said:
"They'll send you off to the trenches of Passchendaele, but wont give you a cent when you got back to Pennsylvania."
What's the saying? "I died in Hell; they called in Passchendaele"?
Maybe the dead were better off. At least they have eternal rest.
I think I found the original on the Wojak Harlan motorcade ambush video. Might be wrong
That's a puzzling saying because, unless memory fails me, no Americans fought at Passchendaele (Third Battle of Ypres, 1917). Close to 100,000 Canadians - but no 'doughboys'. So no one who might return to Pennsylvania from there.
I can only suppose that the name had become a generic, symbolising pointless slaughter. In taking literally a few hundred yards of practically worthless territory, the 'winning' Allies suffered 275,000 casualties - about 50,000 *more* than the 'losing' Germans.
My grandfather (English) got his ticket home after receiving multiple bullet wounds at Passchendaele. He'd been fighting since the first major battle of the war - Mons - three years earlier, and during Ypres I and II had already twice been hospitalised after being buried under masonry for 24 hours in an artillery strike and (separately) suffering lung damage during a gas attack.
He died when I was quite a young boy, but not before impressing on me his assurance that there was nothing glorious about war.
“They’ll send you off to malevelon creek, but won’t give you any super credits when you get back to super earth”
Yeah. I saw that one too
Top 3 favourite genres of music?
- Industrial labor songs from the early 1900s
- Synth wave
- Heavy psychedelic noise
based and also I might have a few more for ya
lol, the ultimate anti-consumerist track.
Agora vou esperar um Brasileiro que também veio por esse vídeo kkkkkkkk
@Jessalyn S i dont get it
@@murilobernardo1870 que video
POV: the West Virginia national guard has started advancing up Blair Mountain
hehe I saw you in his most recent video
Pov: Stupid commies getting punched in the face **in minecraft**
"Oh God"
- My Great Grandpa just wanting to work and go home, Aug. 1921
@@Amoore-vv9wx Too high of an estimate.
Im Boone county WV. The rebellion was not socialist in nature.
This should be played at every Amazon store and warehouse.
It needs to be played at a shit load of places.
I'm here listening to this BECAUSE of them. It's so funny that the FIRST comment I see is about my... "employer".
@@missiblyu7360 your exploitation is not unseen, class-sibling.
@@bicheiroparadoxo4894 nice larp now get back to work
@@jeff_underscore9244 choose to grow, boy. Out of daddy's house there's more than work. I'm grown enough to work and think at the same time, you're stuck at the thoughtless phase yet, aren't you?
Without work there is no workers, without workers no work will get done. Respect your workers
Agreed.
@@benitomussolini8544 Seeing your other comment, I must ask, Which side are you on?
@@water1374 On the side of workers and labourers, but with a bit of a Classical Liberal twist: I'm in love with freedom of speech. That's all.
@@benitomussolini8544 For the Free Market!
And without people creating business, there's no workers.
Never take the side of the people that exploit you.
But be careful not to make a figure who will oppress and exploit you more
@@Mr_Blah True, the current generation of the oppressed with be the next generation of oppressors.
The greatest Brazilian Educator Paulo Freire once said:
"If education is not freeing, the dream of the opressed is to become the opressor"
So it's very important that the liberators come well educated in order to avoid becoming what they vowed to destroy.
@@NotoriousTim that's got to be the wisest thing I ever read in a RUclips comment section
@@bhungaro1 I hope that the education doesnt make them more dangerous. Just look at american politicians. We are given the illusion of freedom and choice, yet are screwed all the same. At least in the soviet union, when the son of a shoe maker with no higher education came into dictatorship level power, everyone was able to see blatantly obviously how fucked the situation they had really was
“Which Side Are You On” vs "Ain't I Right?"
1rst one is Boring... 2nd one is not Boring and catchy!
both are good, but i think ain’t i right is a bit more catchy
Ain’t I right 😌
@@LexaGamer-fc8jd first one has many versions, this one honestly is trash, "ain't i right" meanwhile is all lies
I think ain't I right has a better rhythm
I love the optimistic sadness from this song it reminds me of the Einheitsfrontlied
Who is the man in the video/thumbnail ?
@@erikchepkyy5912 Darude
@@user-eh9op4mq4s Thanks
@@user-eh9op4mq4s bruh
Fuck the Einheitsfront
I feel like the history of Harlan should be taught in all North America, to give insight into the working conditions and the worker vs company situation that often existed back in the early days of unionization. This coming from a Canadian who didn't know Harlan existed until after graduation
They wouldn't want to teach you how to resist them, now would they? There's a reason history is being taught in terms of individuals and events instead of classes and movements like "Hitler started WWII" and "Slavery ended with the civil war" instead of "The collapsing economy and struggle against unions made industrialists fund a fascist regime to feed them war profits at the expense of the working class" and "Slavery was made to be only legal as a punishment for a crime so the US owning class has since started arresting working class people, mostly black, so they can exploit their labor for free."
An accurate telling of history would quickly show the class nature of it and the ability of popular movements to overthrow the ruling class. Ever notice how every socialist that gets democratically elected in latin america turns into a dictator all of a sudden? It's the only movement to threaten the ruling class. Anticommunist propaganda is fed to everyone in the first world/global north from birth so they don't see that they share a common goal with the guy in India who has to work inhumane labor so that the conditions in the first world are slightly more tolerable.
I was honestly surprised how much more coherent this view of history is:
www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/
As I am a man that resides in Harlan, I may stand a little biased, but I do agree with you. Even just reading about the unionization events that have taken place in Harlan County, it's raised attention to questions like, "Why isn't this talked about more?" It's an extremely interesting topic and it provides a lot of insight on how worker conditions should be VS how they are.
I just watched the documentary Harlan County USA it's what brought me here. The lady who wrote this song is in the movie.
I've been to Harlan when I was a truck driver most of the mines are closed now and it's a welfare state. Very depressing.
They would never teach a story of workers rising up against poor conditions. It may *shudders* cause them to think.
Me: i won't get all political tonight
Also me at 2.17 AM:
based
Time to start defending the mountain from the national guard.
When the first air strike your country preforms is also the first your country receives you got issues
Most of these guys were veterans, they surrendered when the national guard arrived, they didn't have the strength to fire against men on uniform, they were fighting against thugs and corruption, not their country.
@@somefurryguy1811 And yet, 'their country' sent in armed forces to support and prop up said thugs and corruption. The thing is, its really not our country. The state exists to uphold the interests of the owner class, not to represent we the people.
@@Ashley-1917 The people are too dumb to govern themselves, there's a reason politicians exist, and there's a reason why corruption in capitalism exists.
"The best argument against capitalism is a 5 minute chat with the average voter."
-churchill IIRC
Communism doesn't work either because well, same reason, people are dumb as fuck.
@@somefurryguy1811 you are going to have to support that claim there.
Solidarity with all the rail workers.
I know which side I’m on.
Based aa fuck. The world will know peace when wall street and the elite gets burned.
Me too, I’m on the side where workers are given their salaries for what they’re worth. Socialism is not the answer to fixing the mistreatment of workers problem.
@@AnticomPhysicalRemover10 yes it is.
@@seductive_fishstick8961socialism has killed 100 million people in only 100 years
@@AnticomPhysicalRemover10I don't think that this workers demand socialism.They wanted better conditions probably.
The battle of blair mountain might have been a tactical defeat but it was definitely a sweet, sweet strategic victory long term. Modern Americans owe so much to the men who fought there, and yet we forget them.
I don't wanna be a downer but Blair Mountain set a horrific anti-union precedent in US domestic policy
I’ll never forget the brave souls that fought so hard for their rights on that mountain. I live around 10 miles away from the mountain myself and there’s not a day I don’t think about it
As a European, it's crazy to see how widely trade unions and labour movements are shunned and labelled as "communism" by a majority of people in the United States. In Europe our history of trade unionism is celebrated, or at the very least acknowledged as being one of the few reasons why we have the rights we have today as workers. So it's really interesting and refreshing to see a video like this celebrating the cause of American workers.
It's not even the people that are critical of trade unions; it's the politicians
In germany unions had to fight like hell too, especially in the 20th century.
If you are interested, there is a podcast called The Iron Dice, which is a storytelling of post WW1 germany, the workers uniting and having a standoff with the navi and so on. Really interesting stuff
It’s because liberty and the market liberal system was the basis of many of the values America was founded on. Hell, we even used “taxation without representation” as a revolutionary slogan, which even though it is referring more towards democracy you can still see the economic side of it. That compounded with the long-standing rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union (Cold War) where everybody thought that at any moment their whole family, livelihood, and country would be just ripped apart with the flick of a switch caused extreme vehemency towards anything related to labor unions or socialist movements. Just over all the propaganda and everything.
Even though the Soviets collapsed some decades ago, the Red Scare really did a number on the US population, and that is still felt very strongly today. It was an era of misinformation, distrust, blind patriotism, and overall many bad choices. It was truly a disaster on the political scene. People today wonder why so many Americans are scared to even touch labor/welfare policies, but when you are told as a child that these evil meanies over in another country, who are also often portrayed as the bad guys in popular media, are going to murder every single person you love over some political views, you’d have a hard time trusting anything related to those political views. Even if they’re just a tiny bit similar. Now I’m not arguing against those, I’m just merely providing some context to why much of the US populace feels very alienated towards those types of values.
@Mary Jane company unions mostly, which are fake unions if we are being fully honest
@@burgherwithfrenchspies Also Asians too, I'm from a family whos half Chinese Taiwanese
They tell you socialism is anti-American but there is no greater patriotism to want better for your nation and the poor and tired that live there
"Give me your tired, your poor, your hungry masses yearning to be free."
Nationalism and Socialism mixed together? Sounds a lot like an idea I’ve heard of before…
Depends on what you mean by "better"
A white supremacist probably thinks that he is making his nation better, but does not make him a true patriot, since his ideas go against the values and ideals the united states was founded on, the same can be applied to the socialists since one of the core american values is private property
@@jasperthe3393 There is a difference between patriotism and nationalism.
@@jasperthe3393 no, you haven't heard of it before. You wouldn't be able to recognize a merge between socialism and nationalism, nor would you be able to define ηαzifαscism
Every worker is a brother, every worker is a sister. Solidarity forever, we have a world to win.
and nothing to lose.
@@gamersize2048 but our chains
@@gamersize2048 Except your food....
@@apersononlineyes6554 we see someone who didn't profit from free education
let me gues, your country was never communist
You have nothing to lose but your chains!
I thought you were me
@@trollololol7882 i wonder why, lol
ruclips.net/video/vvzmBhCpWvA/видео.html
@@FrancisSmith1978 Unironically love "Aint I right" Still a democratic socialist tho.
@@thething9617 What’s a democratic socialist I’m just tryna enjoy some songs
Would never have expected from the US, shows you how much they've buried.
That’s what 100 years or propaganda and the red scare does to people.
Yep, the unions in West Virgina lost most of their battles, so they aren't very well known even within the United States. They did eventually get their unions after the federal government passed laws allowing them to, but it was all for naught because the mines mostly closed soon after. The same fate has befallen most industrial centers of the country, with companies closing old union factories and opening new ones overseas or in other parts of the country such as the south, which don't any union culture to speak of.
@@raemmio2761 Labor unions in the US were at their most powerful in the 1950s. Labor unions didn't diminish in the US due to the 'Red Scare.' There are scores of other reasons behind the decline.
@@raemmio2761 Except unions were never communist and are always prevalent even in the most capitalist countries like Germany or France.
@@savage7882 I don’t know why you brought up that unions are in capitalist countries since capitalist hate unions. As unions usually take away profit from the capitalist. Why do you think Starbucks broke multiple laws to Union bust, or amazon, etc. Saying unions weren’t socialist or communist is just plain dumb since while everyone doesn’t need to be a socialist to be in a union, socialists will definitely join in order to change things for the worker. Unions are made to counter the capitalist’s agenda.
There was a television show and it didn't really tell audiences what it was going to be about, but I paused it as my husband and I speculated and we saw the datline was Harlan County. Oh. Well, that's a clue.
@NEWNXNTINY Damnation!
@NEWNXNTINY I'm so pissed they cancelled it
A human, has a right to live as a human being and must be treated as such!
Long live the friendship of the people! peace to you worker,
Wherever you are!
The FBI listening to my phone:
“My daddy was a minor”
“FBI OPEN UP”
Nah, it's the CIA agent
@@dapoog721 It's the NSA, ffs
@@cam4636 it’s the m15 ffs
@@thatGuy-wm2cr it's the mbi ffs
It means minority
You know I always heard the kind of “our voices will be erased and forgotten” sentiment in movies and TV, and for the most part those seemed theatrical, since the sentiment was uttered by those who currently are not critically disenfranchised or not disenfranchised at all, like the ones who claim “the woke mob is coming after people like me”. But here, these people, the unions, those who stood with the workers and labor movements, their plight has been forgotten. Truly. American capitalism has perfectly succeeded in their mission. They completely eroded any class consciousness in the citizenry, pitting one worker against another, and even being upheld by the same workers for being their lords and receiving absolutely zero real repercussions for greedily racking up more and more profits generated by the efforts of the working class. The hopes of millions of souls who yearned for a better future have now been squandered, and we barely even bat an eye
the liberation of the working class is the task of the workers alone
ruclips.net/video/vvzmBhCpWvA/видео.html
@@FrancisSmith1978 the vietnam part aged like milk lol
@@carrot4759 I think the war on vietnam should have been voluntary. Ik vietnamese people and none like the communist reigme
@@FrancisSmith1978 i think the us should stop fucking around with the global south and mind their own buisness for once
The New Left didn't think so. They shaved and got jobs in factories in order to organize. Didn't go very far.
Southern American accent such a beautiful one.
Doesn't sound like any Spanish or Portuguese accent I know of, unless you're talking about the Falklands.
@@MrBao-yt7bk He means the southern areas of the United States, it’s confusing 😅
@Niko Bellic. well he did say *southern* American and not *south* american
...this song doesn't have a southern accent
@@MrBao-yt7bk Portuguese accent is very close to the russian one
I’m very conservative, but after I just saw a commercial by Amazon saying “our workers aren’t underpaid! They are paid 7 dollars an hour 🙂.” And so I had to come to this video and think about what I just heard
Being conservative doesn't mean you are automatically a capitalist. You can be a community but still an ultra capitalist like China. Capitalism is more of an economic than a political agenda. You might just been influenced by cold war US propaganda when in fact European countries are social democrats.
@@alimohammad1934 China is socialist. Also, capitalism is an economic. The idea of being a conservative is literally about capitalism, and conservative ideology is built around tradition and capitalism
@@irishb4stard886 They say they are communist but in practice the government has adopted capitalist ideas and is more like a state capitalist dictatorship.
Be a socialist conservative 😎
@@irishb4stard886 you can be socially conservative and economically left-wing, mate. There have been many Christian socialist organisations.
"На чьей ты стороне?" - Песня американских социалистов.
Соберитесь, добрые рабочие,
У меня для вас благие вести,
О том что к нам прибыл старина Союз...
На чьей ты стороне?
На чьей ты стороне?
Мой папка был шахтёром,
А я шахтёров сын
И я буду с Союзом до полной победы
На чьей ты стороне?
На чьей ты стороне?
Говорят в Округе Харлан нет нейтралов:
Ты или человек Союза или головорез Д.Г.Блэра
На чьей ты стороне?
На чьей ты стороне?
О, рабочие стерпите ли вы?
Ох, скажите как сможете вы?
Вы будете дрянными штрейкбрейхерами
Или будете вы мужчинами?
На чьей ты стороне?
На чьей ты стороне?
Не ломайте стачки ради боссов,
Не слушайте их ложь.
У нас, бедного народа нет шанса
если мы не организуемся!
На чьей ты стороне?
На чьей ты стороне?
На чьей ты стороне?
На чьей ты стороне?
I love how you can see the differences between leftist music in different countries, and how they highlight the different situations socialist movements face ex:
Russian socialist music is triumphant, for the revolution has gained control of the state
hopeful for a revolution
bruh it removed all of my comment
@@Dhjdhebdaish f. but I got your point, it's an interesting one
@@mihalyvadorgrafett2759 well that’s good
There is a disturbing lack of full-stops/periods on this comment
@@kaidenhall2718 he said it removed some of his comment
this one’s for all the brave workers striking, unionizing, and organizing right now. good on y’all, keep fighting the good fight 💪
Communism, Socialism, call it what you like. There's very little difference in the two.
In communist countries there's nothing called "striking".
Work until you die, all in the name for your "honourable chairman".
Communism has never worked, and never will.
Communism is supposed to care for the workers, but in reality it does the exact opposite.
What about the ones defying vackseen mandates would you stand with those? Lmao
@@robins4209 So theres not a difference to capitalism...
@@somerandommen Basically yes, it all comes down to greed in the end.
As with all dictators, they tend to get a bit crazy once they get the power.
It just so happens to be that Communist states statistically have had more ruthless dictators than any other state.
People tend to forget that stalin killed way more people than hitler ever did.
Based on ethnicity and race too, just like Hitler.
And Xi Jinping is doing the same with the Uyghurs.
The standard of living seems to be a lot higher in Capitalist states for some reason.
@@mariogeorgiev3085 And the way i see it, authoritarianism is a part of the communist ideology.
Since all communist states that have ever lived looked the same in the construction of who's in charge.
I'm willing to reconsider my political beliefs when i'm sure that we don't give all the power to some dictator that will bring down the standard of living to rock bottom overnight.
There has been way to many unsuccessful communist dictatorships, and i don't want my country to become a part of that list anytime soon.
The only solution i see is to reconstruct the communist ideology in order to prevent the things that previous communist states has failed so miserably at.
But for the time being, i will stick to democracy and well tested methods that have been proven to work in the long run.
Workers of the world, Unite!
What do you mean by "workers"?
As in those who their labor to acquire wealth, and those who do not own either a small business or a significant chunk of a large business.
@@chadofthexxthcentury4741 The Proletariat which is made of Five Part Hence the Five Tipped Star
National socialism is the best economic form of socialism in my opinion
chad "which side are you on" vs virgin "aint I right".
Even though I'm socialist I gotta say ain't I right slaps
Ain't I right slaps if it wasn't for the extremely cringe message
"I detect a little communism"
vs the sigma "I'm no communist"
@@moneymanofficial *ultra virgin
Today the workplace, tomorrow the world! ⚒️ ⚙️ 🚩
Use a Hitler quote for your cause… not a great start…
@@ddlcfan5539 the quote originated with American labourists, it was adopted by German fascists after the fact
@@masonjh1103 ok cool, but still… what was it made famous by… like maybe change your motto if Hitler used it. Thats what i would do
@@ddlcfan5539 If Hitler were to say Sneed would you stop saying it? Of course not.
@@ddlcfan5539 tf no?
Make American Workers Great Again. Solidarity!
We were great and we are great. But we need a vanguard party. We need to organize. Seize state power and smash it!
@@internetperson8638 Whats the state of CPUSA?
@@saptarshideb2082 CPUSA is..not doing enough I'd say. They arent efficient.
@@internetperson8638 Why are the Communists there pushing, so that they do?
@@saptarshideb2082 What do you mean
The best song for the upcoming American second civil war.
this is so calming... an optimistic sadness...
a very mournful instrumental, makes sense given the circumstances, and fits where we are today
We can bring to birth a new world from ashes of the old, for union makes us strong - Traditional folk piece
Solidarity forever
yeah sure. there are no ashes left to rebuild on, and just look where you got east germany. either way you can't win with this quote.
@@florpyjohnson9531 idk man as an individual we are weak but together we are strong. He’s also quoting something from a HOI4 mod
@@fatmanbatman9374 yes, but that's not how easy and simple it is dude. i don't know what type of socialist or whatever you are, but other ideologies say the exact same thing. fascism, democracy, communism, socialism, nationalism, they all usually say the group is better than the individual, but each goes about doing it in a very, very different way. also, what do you expect to achieve by saying it's from a hoi4 mod? it's still a stupid quote regardless.
TNOtard located
Gus Hall based man
@@florpyjohnson9531 What did it do to east Germany? A large percentage is still socialist, even tho the GDR was corrupted socialism. But the people who lived there have not forgotten that the life of the average was better back in the GDR. I know a lotta people who lived there and say so.
Even though things went really wrong for different reasons, everything truly socialist what has been done in the GDR had good and not bad consequences.
My father was born to a miner in Harlan County itself. We don’t live further than a half hour’s drive from it today. Things have changed and stayed the same. Miner’s exploitation has ended because there are no more mines. Now everyone’s unemployed and it’s rather hopeless. America thinks we are right wing nazis who hate racial and sexual minorities, but the people here that came before were the ones who fought at Blair Mountain against the Companies and their goons from Sheriff J.H. Blair and the Baldwin-Felts group. We’ll accept any system, especially a left-wing one, so long as the traditions here are held in equal importance to the progression of rights and the justice for all people. Many here simply fear and feel threatened by the call to destroy tradition by the modern left, who focus more on social change rather than economic change.
I’ve never been much on left-wing philosophy because of a modern day neoliberal focus on temporary change instead of change that will benefit all in the long term and the tendency for socialist regimes to collapse and kill its own people, but I’ve turned to it to a degree seeing the effects of the current system and the signs that it is going down a very dark path. Hopefully we can make positive change before this system finally hits a wall and takes everyone down into the abyss with it.
God bless America, God bless those who fight with the little man, and God bless all of you around the world.
Lazy commie just get to work
very honest and humble word mate
Indeed, the modern left is a disgrace.
As you said, "The traditions must be held in equal importance to the progression of rights and justice for everyone" I very much agree with you and simcerely hope to see a change as soon as possible comrade.
@@personbob8691 says the lazy one.
@@personbob8691
I'm a "commie" and neither lazy or unemployed. Actually, last week alone I clocked in 62 hours, Monday - Saturday.
Im just here from a video on cut that the guy said 1900 industrial labor songs are his favorite genre
Same 💀💀
Same
Me too😂
I needed to hear
"Do you stand with the rich and powerful, the ones who put you down? Or do you stand with your brothers and sisters on the ground?"
You work hard, you produce a great surplus for them and they pay you as little as they possibly can. You receive a FRACTION of that surplus value.
They do nothing but sit around and wait for the money that YOU generate with your labor. And they have the AUDACITY to call YOU the *parasite* if you DARE to ask for more of that surplus value YOU created!
The fucking nerve!
The fucking audicity of Capitalists to say the havenoughts have enough! People are refusing ambulances, doctors are putting their hands in your pockets to see your wallet to know what sort of healthcare treatment you should get, not to mention nobody nowadays are paid not enough, not even just the thin crust to live in this backwards ass economy. I am fucking waiting for that trickle that Reagan had promise, but it seems like a cat has gotten too fat, and he doesn't understand who has the bargaining power!
Now is that a criticism of communism or far right capitalism?
Trick question. Both do that. _The difference is communism has the little added problem of the government brainwashing everyone else to beat you to death for speaking your mind even though deep down... they know it's true._
_Is it any wonder the further towards any ideological extreme you go, the more they demonize centrist positions and moderators?
Industrial labor songs from the 1900s hit hard
1941
Cant we just go back to the good ol' days when unions were basically armed militias? The rich my out wealth us, but they will never out gun us.
fellow Scotian
locked and loaded
Kinda sad we don't teach people about Harlan County anymore, guess that just tells you who's running the education system.
One of the most based songs ever.
Yeah, if you like big government
@@pittraider1221 I don't like "Beeg Goberment". But the song is still based
@@pittraider1221 LOL if you thought the 'conservatives' are for 'small' government, how come the patriot act exists? how come we were in an unpopular war for 20 years?
@@ThatCamel104 Conservatives aren't for small gov, libertarians are....
wait but thats not what based means
He’s still asking the same question to this day
Break the chains, comrades! ✊🏻🛠🚩
firstly ya have ti leave ur basement
do what ya want but don't call us the c word
@@chadofthexxthcentury4741 Ever Heard of The IWW?
@@chadofthexxthcentury4741 leave *your* basement first lmao
@@enterurnamehere27
"no u"
flawless response, bravo
Time traveler: *kick a rock*
The timeline:
I'm glad they did, this timeline slaps
This is the best version of this song.
No doubt
POV: You searched, "industrial labor songs" after that cut video... nice
What cut video
Why would anyone ever take the side that exploits them?
Because exploiting isn't a thing anymore in most "First world" countries.
Oh it most definitely is.@@Microcolnovka
Money
The ideology of the dominant class prevails, because is the only ideology the majority knows
@@Microcolnovka What about the millions of people being exploited in third-world countries? Are they not white enough for you to care?
Unions are the only way power is equal among authority and workers. Here In Australia our unions are what got us 401k, Medicare and good economic freedom!
People simping for capitalism while they work 12 hours a day getting paid $7.25 will never not be both funny and incredibly sad.
FACTS! I'm terrified of graduating college, honestly. At least I did the near-impossible of not getting student loan debt yet.
I feel this. So fucking true
People yearning for a completely dead in the water ideology with no momentum or prospects are equally sad.
@@mrttripz3236 We were already talking about capitalism
Do any places actually pay 7.25? I live in buttfuck nowhere and everywhere pays at least 15.
American socialist songs: poor people deserve rights
American capitalist songs: this is the perfect system there are no flaws.
@Look Up Metzitzah b'peh Then Go To Images Huh?
@@tefky7964ignore him. I’ve seen him make a lot of White Supremacist talks in this comment section
@EuropaTheLastBattleDocumentaryYou're an actual fascist 😂
From the commencement of the titanic American strife the workingmen of Europe felt instinctively that the star-spangled banner carried the destiny of their class. The contest for the territories which opened the dire epopee, was it not to decide whether the virgin soil of immense tracts should be wedded to the labor of the emigrant or prostituted by the tramp of the slave driver?
-Karl Marx to Abraham Lincoln
January 28, 1865
Wtf???? Im looking this up.
I knew that Marx and Lincoln wrote to each other but I didn’t know the contents of their letters. I have always been curious.
@@dragongirl7885 Marx was a writer and reporter for the New York daily tribune from 1852-1861.
@@haroldsullivan2036 really? I thought he would have been in Germany at that time, it seems kind of strange for him to go to America
@@dragongirl7885 he didn’t live in the US, he reported on the war from London, which is where he lived during the course of the war
workers of the world unite!
Why do you want to work for nothing in a communist system?
@@kye4216 Communism is when work for nothing -Carl Marks
This, synthwave, and heavy psychedelic pop are my favorite genres
Glad to know we came from that one vid
what vid?
@@sanjarsocool What vid
@@sanjarsocool which video
@@talibaninternetexplorer Its some video of a black guy asking a hipster abt his favorite genres of music
*Huge respect to the many who died in Virginia way back during the coal wars and the many others in the many other struggles*
Pen-Pen died in Harlan County. May his sacrifice to the working class be forever remembered in our hearts.
We keep their dream alive solidarity to the workers in CA and the john Deere workers
As a leftist from a latin american country, we tend to build up rage towards the USA in general, but we always must remember to blame their government/bourgeoisie for their crimes, and not their citizens. Americans workers are also being exploited and they'll always be our brothers.
Finally. So many people seem to not understand citizens are not the problem
Lol you'll never stand next to me. Call me a brother and i'll order another fascist government to be erected in your country.
No war but class war. The only justified one.
@@shelkton.7991 you wont do anything you cant even go outside to make social interactions weeb sh*t
@@shelkton.7991 You cant order shit. They exploit you just like they exploit everyone else. You buying into american nationalism hurts you more then anyone else
Haunting and ghostly. I love it.
and mournful
Happy Labor Day! ✊
The average republican's worst nightmare:
Wanna know how wanting a better work life with benefits and a decent wage is communist/socialist. Oh yea republicans
I'm quite conservative and this slaps
@@apostateunion what sides do you think they are talking about?
This song is so fucking based holy shit.
🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
From JORDAN 🇯🇴❤
ما الذي اتي بنا الي هنا😂
ما الذي اتي بنا الي هنا😂
Nah
عشان هيك أنا هون 🤣
@@muhammadarekat3384 what are you saying!
even as someone who isnt a socialist or communist, this song fuckin slaps
you should be, it's either them or barbaric capitalism
@@onlyhereformoney175 "the two ideologies are communism and capitalism" lul
@@onlyhereformoney175 how is capitalism barbaric
@@chadofthexxthcentury4741 It can't survive without deliberate exploitation, for starters.
@@jakekaywell5972 But Communism Can't Survive At All
If you're American, watch out listening to this music, you'll be on multiple watchlists
Oh well🤷♂️😂
Oops
I think I already am
good
So? Should I be scared? Hahaha
Pete Seeger and the Almanac Singers always make good music, especially Which Side Are You On
This is such a good song, I love it❤
Hoi4 socialist america bringing justice as we fight the new confederation
Wich side you on?
@@bubbadeaux9625 who seid I want the power?? I am around a libertarian socialist who wants to put power in the worker and poeple in a council or union not a dictator or a authoritarian democracy?
Not all are hungry some like to calm it instead
Nobody says this.
@@generalarcticfox6406 word of advice pal, last time a confederation in the states was started we got barbequed to high hell
@@generalarcticfox6406 libertarian socialism xd so you mean you're libleft?
@@bourbon4033 yes around a anarcho-councilist or Anarcho-Sydicalist
“My daddy was a miner”… What the hell, how did they know about Bitcoin back in that days?
АХАХАХАХАХАХАХ
Мой папа был шахтёром и я сын шахтёра
In here from the video of the white guy getting asked what his 3 favorite genres of music were and here answered this
Same
Same
Workers of the world unite!
This song makes me want to call a vote of no confidence against my billionaire media mogul father
The fight still continues my brothers and sisters
Damn right it does.
US corporations: Why am I hearing this again?
When Amazon workers get unionized....
Then Target, Then UPS, And Then Gov Workers
@@The_Syndicalist_Gamer increasing worker's solidarity is BASED af ngl,
@@The_Syndicalist_Gamer increasing worker's solidarity is BASED af ngl,
gotta love industrial labor songs from the 1900s
also this was played on succession
'Socialism is bad' old folks when you take their social security away:
Republicabs normaly socialiasm bad! Republicans when they pay rent+food STALIN DID LITTERLY NOTHING WRONG
"Which side are you on" has a really ominous tone, I like it
I know it does
pov: you came here from that video with the guy
God bless the Union
🇺🇲
This has a distinctly American feel. Not only the music (which is very American sounding) but I love how unique the American brand of socialism (true socialism, not liberal wannabe socialism) is. It somehow manages to combine socialism with the American individualist spirit. “Will you be a lousy scab or will you be a man?” I’m a centrist but I just had to admire that.
>:[ admire me too! i’ll pay you
@@capitalism3720 As centrist, I'll admire you too. I personally have doubts on capitalism due to exploitation and corrupt, unfathomable greed. I don't mind being rich, but if you're a filthy rich person and spend your money on useless things instead of using it to benefit your country/people. But at the end, I can respect capitalism
@@capital_of_texas ok thx!
@@capitalism3720 you don’t need to pay me, I’m a centrist. You aren’t perfect but you can be good.
not trying to start an argument here. just wondering what you think a good example, besides what you've already said about american socialism, of a "true socialist" society. a lot of people criticize the USSR, and in response a lot of the time the socialist responds with "it wasn't real socialism", or "real socialism has never been tried." which i think is really stupid, why do you support an ideology that we don't even know works yet, an ideology that people tried hard to achieve and yet failed?
Are these the industrial labor songs from the 1900’s I’m looking for
It seems like becoming a Socialist automatically grants you a great taste in music and the ability to create music that is absolute poggers to listen to
I might as well give up music forever then lol
@@everydaychemistry6231 Sadly, yes. As it seems.
Its like a tech tree where everything you research a new left-leaning ideology you get access to a better quality of music.
We're also sexier, if it helps.
@@dreamwalker4884 Absolutely, comrade.
Solidarity with Kelloggs workers.
solidarity to all workers comrade
"I detect a little Communism" lmao
Vuvuzuela 100 trillion 💯💯💯 iPhone
yuop dont like capietalism yet you exist
venezuela 100 trilliiooon dead
It was a part of America then.
@@toasterbath8633 YES epic reference
@@toasterbath8633 you dont Like capitalism yet Bench appearo said communism is when the government does karl stalin no food gulag china... Care to explain?
*The Hall Presidency*
"We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old,
For the union makes us strong"
- A Traditional Folk Piece
*Solidarity Forever*
Sus hall
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on
@@elliot5203
The side that demands that authority must prove itself trustworthy in my eyes, before I grant it an ounce of legitimacy.
@TAY1DN // YellowMagicOrchestra&HatsuneMikuFan2006 which side are u oonn which side are u on? 🎶
@TAY1DN // YellowMagicOrchestra&HatsuneMikuFan2006 *holy music stops*
@@elliot5203 no no no, holy music starts.
Better Red then capitalist
@@roanoke8095
Dead, capitalist, they’re all the same
@@roanoke8095 a man can dream
@@roanoke8095 A democracy of the proletariat is better, though fair enough.
@@goose4919
Same thing technically
Better red than inbred
im not heavy into politics but bro is tearing it up on the banjo🔥🔥🔥
fr Pete Seeger was a great musician. I love his banjo playing
I am not a communist. I am not a socialist. To some extent, I am even a greedy, selfish man who never had to work a day in his life to survive.
But even I understood something about capitalism when I actually read and not just quoted Adam Smith and other great economic theorists.
We made a terrible mistake in allowing this system to become a global ideology that is so far removed from any of the original intentions.
This system isn’t broken, it was never intended to be implemented in the way it was. It works exactly as the people who changed the original intentions hoped it would.
I know which side I am on.
True
Very ,very true
If capitalism is kept from being back like oppression of the industrial revolution where the federal government wasn't keeping rights and fair wages, then its cool
No, it is working exactly as intended. What you are seeing right now in our national and global economy IS capitalism. Capitalism is about the private ownership of the means of production. Whenever you enforce property law, you are giving HUGELY outsized power to a very small group. This small group uses their power and money to lobby (bribe) politicians into making the state serve their interests. This is what capitalism always turns into. Whenever workers get any kind of small concession like union rights, higher wages, healthcare, or pensions, they are always clawed back by the capitalists through different means such as eliminating or defunding social programs, sending labor overseas, or cutting back union laws. Since the 70's, wages for the bottom 90% have stagnated, and union membership has fallen drastically.
This is how it has been for the entire history of capitalism and the state, and it will always be that way as long as the capitalists are in power.
Read Lenin Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism. The system is working exactly as intented. It's just shit
What happened to the original video? Did it get deleted or something
the entire channel got taken down
@@mihalyvadorgrafett2759 Dang that’s a shame, was it on some bogus claim of like “hate speech” or something else?
@@Pixelnova_ some dick might have reported smth for the lulz
thanks for reminding me how people are literally brainwashed to be afraid of socialism because of corrupt rightist media
@@nashestylez Exactly lol, it's actually a shame since if you don't mention the word socialism people usually support most socialist policies but once you use the scary word it pushes them away.
Question of the day: Which side are you on? 🤔
workers side ✊
The good one
Gotta love how literally the whole political spectrum is in the comments, and for once, they aren't arguing, it's tear inducing in it's beauty, because let's be honest, while the song was made by a socialist, it was to poke at very, VERY manipulative and borderline malicious people who put lives over profit, which is bad even for all but the harshest of the capitalistic parts of the spectrum. Because the old mining companies from before the great depression and somewhat up to the 50's, were absolutely horrific with what they gave their miners.
It goes to show that people forget not everyone on the opposite side of the spectrum is a bad person, as they can all agree on when something is truly evil, it's the radicals of each side which tend to be the worst, you can be on the farthest sides of the spectrums, but not be a "radical." Once you start putting things over the value of human life and progress, that's when you transfer from someone who is good, to a political radical.
People can be Fascists' can be good people, fascists wanted a united nation with workers who all helped serve a good cause of bettering the world around them, radicals twisted those goals during WW2 to make it for something worse. People can be Communists and be good people, communists wanted an equal world, where all people receive equal compensation for their jobs and to a point equal rights, in modern socialism, completely equal rights. People can be Capitalists, and still be good people, wanting workers to actually try and giving incentives for better work, creating innovation through competition and forcing advancement. People can be Libertarians and still be good people, wishing for equal rights and to maintain liberties for the people.
There is a good moral ground behind almost all political ideologies, it comes down to interpretation of good and bad based on the moral compass of the person, studies of the past, what they believe is correct, it's not a simple as red bad, blue bad for example, which sadly many people make their whole personality now adays. But even among the hatred of some of those types of people that DO believe that, even they can admit that J. H. Blair and the Blair Mountain incidents were horrific. J. H. Blair is one of capitalisms finest examples of radical belief, having civilians killed just on the thought of wanting better living conditions if he found out they had those. No single side of history's political systems doesn't have stains on it, from people who either exploit it, or people who radicalize it.
Honestly it feels like today that choosing a "group" to adjoin to is, rather useless honestly as everyone has their own interpretations, wishes, morals, and wants of that system, which was always meant to run like a well oiled machine, the problem with all government systems, even anarchy, is people always believe that the utopian idea at the top will be their victory over the other, rather then to sooner console with others and patch up the broken bonds of simply being fellow humans, naively believing others inferior for thinking that because someone else has different morals and wants.
Yet, still, even beyond that, those people can admit what is truly horrific, all coming together as one to agree that horrific things can be done by any side, even their own. There is no real good or bad, it's all subjective, in the hands of the people to decide, and everyone can decide how bad this was on almost equal terms.
I hope I put into words something that people struggled to find words for until reading this, brought a smile to someone's face, or a thought of realization to someone who was slowly radicalizing themselves, if my words reach that person, please don't forget your fellow man, that if one day you find yourself wishing others harm or death just for having different wishes then your own, please don't forget that man has a mother, a father, and family as well, they are human, just like you, not a monster, do not dehumanize your enemy, for that makes it easier to wish them death or harm, but make them realize that you are both human. That you are both people, born, raised, with families who would cry for them just like your mother would cry for you at your funeral if you died before she ever did.
I'll stop typing now, but, I hope I brought a nice realization to someone and maybe a smile in realizing not all hope in this world is gone.
Because this song hits everyone it hits confederates because it’s anti federals it hits liberals because it’s about oppression it hits conservatives because it’s anti government it hits commies because it’s about worker taking over and it hits nazis because well it’s about workers taking over
My friend, that was a good speech. I find it amazing you were able to mold a song about the Harlan county labor war into something that explains humanity in a good way.
I've always been into the political compass as well as 8 values. I agree with what you say that all ideologies are based on a personal moral compass.
personally if it was me, I believe that the best value to classify someone would be a spectrum of just and unjust. Simply put we would see that among those you call friends, in whom company you enjoy, you would have a similar view with morals, what is right and what is wrong.
Also seen is that neoliberal elites and a majority of upper class individuals would be in the unjust, whether from sinning or from breaking laws, hence why neoliberal elites are very not-cool.
Personally as for the individual, rather than polcom or 8values, the best way to identify a politically associated friend is to find the 1 or 2 main values you care about the most at that moment.
For myself on polcomp that would be authoritarian, for 8values that would be nation+ authority. Sure someone may have completely different views than me in all aspects other than those 2, but if those are the only ones I care about what does it matter.
Recently I have been looking into Józef Piłsudski, a major unit for the 2nd polish republic, anyways before poland became poland again after ww1, he was in the socialist party, of course he wasn't socialist but he worked with the party as that was his best option for reaching the goal of a 'non-domesticated poland'.
By "the whole political spectrum" the right wingers are admitting it slaps (which drives the actual argument nowhere) instead of arguing
"there's no real good or bad, it's all subjective"
No, I would say that the capitalists are objectively evil and worse ones and not the worker's movements lmao. The capitalist system is inherently monopolistic and oppresive
Vida longa à solidariedade internacional da classe trabalhadora! Long live the international solidarity of the working class!
comunista
@@templarifudid9654 YES
@@user-ci4hi2ui2k communism is bad.
@@templarifudid9654 no its not
@@user-ci4hi2ui2k it is.
Based America?
No
Yeah
America will never be based. They have attached their nation to neoliberalism and capitalism. If they become "based", they would stop being America, which honestly I wouldn't care at all if the US is gone.
@@matzmilan7780 Absolute fax being printed here.
Везде, где есть упоминание коммунизма, будет русский комментарий :)
А если серьёзно, очень хорошая и классная песня 👍
@Space Vatnik ээммм..da
@Space Vatnik just because he’s speaking on his point of view on communism doesn’t mean there a Trotskyist
@Space Vatnik come on, bratishka, ne hvatalo eshe zdes' mezhdu levakami srach ustraivat'
Исполнение не очень.
Однако сами американцы чхать хотели на коммунизм, у них исторически всегда социал-демократия котироаалась.
@@b-29.Ну да ну да, тебе же лучше знать.
Seeing american and socialist in the same sentence still feels weird for me,but is a good thing knowing we have brothers everywhere,even in the most capitalist place in the world.
Of course we do comrade
The American government is very capitalist, but the American people have had a long history of unions and socialist movements (especially before 1940s). It’s just that it has all been buried due to the Red Scare and the Cold War.
In the late 19th and early 20th century the US was one of the most socialist countries in the world and was seen by many as the socialist counterpart of Russia which was seen as the opposite of that. Which is kind of ironic considering where they would end up.
But the most important thing is that the US wasn't always the hyper capitalist nation we have today. Socialism is a core part of the US identity and played a significant role in shaping it. It's just that moneyed interests have changed education and history books to downplay the role that socialism and the unions played.
In the turn of the 20th century the US was one of the most socialist countries in the world with the anti-socialist crusade being led by Russia. Which is ironic seeing where they would end up half a century later.
- The Hall Presidency -
"We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old
For the union makes us strong" - A Traditional Folk Piece
---- Solidarity Forever ----