Greatest Left-Winged Songs?

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 Easy Money wrote:

 Easy Money wrote:

 MortSahlFan wrote:

 SteveG wrote:

Why are anti war songs considered left wing? Songs that propose socialist reforms and pro union stances are left wing. For those you have to go back to Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger singing songs like Union Maid. Most of the songs listed above are "protest songs" and don't always conform to some ideology.

You're right - Guthrie and Seeger are the best examples, but things changed in the decades to come. You had the entire country behind WWII, but with Vietnam, it was the first time a large part of the country was against the war. I think that was the big issue of the day, and with that war and all its financial cost, there could be no funding of "The Great Society". 

Chronologically speaking, you wouldn't have protest songs after we had real change with FDR, for example. After Truman's Taft-Hartley Act, there wasn't a revival among folk singers about unions. We only had Jimmy Hoffa, another misunderstood man. Stupid movies being referenced as history drives me crazy, because it's what people remember the most.
 Your post is full of wrong information, but I'll just start with the worst. You say "Stalin and Mao were not Communists". What!?!?!
 Lets move on to your second bit of misinformation. Fascist and socialist are not mutually exclusive terms and Hitler was both a fascist and a socialist. The official name for the Nazis was the National Socialist Workers Party.
Also, referring to your answer to Steve, LBJ is not in the dictionary.

I did my thesis on this exact subject in 1975! Finally , someone who has read history! The difference between a pundit/blogger/commentator and a historian is that the latter seeks out both or multiple sides of the issue , "Le pour et le contre" in French and then synthesizes (it is a prog site after all) into a factual, unbiased essay. Fascist and Socialist have been the 2 sides of the same coin for centuries and to think that in this "enlightened" 21st century, that we still have ONLY two vulgar failures to root for or against is another sign of our small pettiness in this 'Internet is my psychiatrist' age. To prove the point , the new twist is to play with labels , saying that this is not fascism and this is not communism! LABELS that only prove that the point is actually COMMON-ism , aka Same ole crapola since Eden. The amount of lying, deceit, omission, deception and misrepresentation online is monstrous. The only left wing and right wing that matters are on birds, it helps them fly.....

Edited by tszirmay - December 02 2020 at 18:52