Can we get a thread dedicated to leftist music going? Post all songs and artists related to socialism, communism, anarchism, workers’ struggles, revolts of the oppressed, anti-racism, anti-imperialism/anti-war, anti-fascism, anti-consumerism, the outright fuckery of capitalism, classic protest songs, or anything related to leftism. All languages welcome. Bonus points for music which invokes heavy emotion such as tears and/or militancy.
Hardmore: no edgelords and/or hoodrats. No obnoxious “anarcho punk,” no Death Shits, no Denzel ChickenCurry, no JPeggy, none of this angry nihilism aesthetic. Post real proletarian music which speaks to the struggles and hardships of the proletariat, not just shit which angers your mom.
literal hippies yelling about Maoism and muh world peace educated Black people complaining about being poor what rap superstars do after they realize how empty materialist consumption is (Tyler and Frank with muh sports cars) 50s housewives complaining about being beaten and cheated on and having nowhere else to go
Ryder Nguyen
If a leftist song makes you cry, you should probably go back to Tumblr.
Austin Gutierrez
We don't need more of that crap, i.e. angry kids yelling at shit. Leftist subcultures are polluted enough.
Jacob Wilson
if anything makes you cry at this point, you haven't seen enough
the only way that's possible is if you grew up ignorant and sheltered. be glad you know more than other people do and the fact that you don't get stressed out by the menial shit around you.
Jayden Collins
Trap music is literal garbage. 98% of modern rap sounds like shit.
Levi Torres
what do you think I was implying with this?
Jackson Powell
this tbh. i've had to deal with these kinds of people irl and they're annoying as fuck. their whole """personality""" is literally just "FUCK EVERYTHING MAN I'M GONNA GO RUN AWAY FROM HOME AND DO BUSKING UGH FOLK PUNK AND ANARCHISM IS SO COOL" i had one of them in my music performance class and one of the songs they made was just them yelling really quickly and strumming random chords before screaming fuck over and over 100 times.
death grips aren't overtly political and are only a meme on this board due to m-u-k-e, Denzel has made like two political songs while the rest of them are about flexing and fucking bitches, JPEG hasn't released anything worthwhile.
Not gonna post specifics nao but honestly like 95% of Calipso / Soca / Other Caribbean genres are basically 100% Lefitst when it comes to political songs
youtube.com/watch?v=W7Qht8OyxaU Nature is marvelous, the forest is green and wonderful, The road is in front of us, The sawn-off gun is in my hands, Someone has a grenade, someone has UZI… And here it is! Inomarka ! Stop! Put on the brakes! ("Inomarka" - car produced abroad, here means defiantly expensive car, symbol of "new russians") For we live in the kolhoz (collective farm) " Daybreak of October Revolution", And now, a beast, we will fry you. For we stand for Soviet Power, we stand for red flag. And it will be so, by the testament of Lenin. Climb out, bourgeoisie! We will judge you. You will pay for your treashery of motherland… Birds are singing, gnats are humming, Dead bourgeoisie are stinking, how I'm glad, only stink… Sky is blue, bright sunshine. Someone's inomarka thrown down to a ditch. And it will soon spread over whole our Russia, our fighting call "Stop! Put on the brakes!" For we live in kolhoz "Daybreak of October" …
i just can't take people serious when they speak like that, finnish is like a troll language a parody of something kinda like yiddish sounds like a mockery of german youtube.com/watch?v=r9YyaknVx_o
Lots of 60s protest rock / hippie music applies. And don't give me bullshit about purity test nonsense, most of them are left in nature upholding working together, protecting the environment, all kinds of real social justice etc… While being opposed to the asshollery of right wing ideology , exploitation by capitalism etc.
Oh and if you want something specifically about a socialist group don't forget the Latin American parties of resistance. Most of them have neat theme songs.
Denzel, Jpegmafia and everyone else in their milieu are hoodrats. They sound like hoodrats on the track, they behave like hoodrats IRL. Any moron who thinks they're "woke" obviously hasn't listened to real political rap like Immortal Technique, Brother Ali, Dead Prez, the Coup, Lowkey, etc.
Billy Bragg is a flaming liberal/sucdem.
Ethan Hernandez
Billy "support the miners" Bragg is a liberal, right…
No, it’s been co-opted to be a “bourgeois labor party” in Lenin’s terms. So far it seems Corbyn is trying to return it to its roots as a genuine labor party.
Logan Sullivan
That KGB song is Swedish not Finnish you stupid Tomostache Kraut.
Tyler Myers
Bragg is still a sucdem and his music is mediocre at best.
Matthew Cook
Not an argument. Oh come off of it Great Leap Forward is a great track.
Hoxha was such a fucking autist. Truly one of the most retarded eastern bloc leaders.
Landon Green
It's funny since he was so afraid of Tito, and during Tito young people in Yugoslavia thought that long hair, Rock and Roll and "shameless" behavior would never stop existing. And yet all of these are not really liked in former Yugo countries.
Charles Sanchez
t. 20somethings talking about drinking … please no more
What are some good anarchist songs aside from A Las Barricadas and punk shit?
Brody Rodriguez
Nobody is perfect, but bunkers are the salvation of humanity. We must cover the entire earth in bunkers.
I saw an instrumental version posted here of are we living like back then where some guitar guild was playing the vocal melody. does anyone have that?
Ive watched this three times. The first time i hated it, i sat through with it in the background because i saw it on a political compass meme. The second time i casually glanced at it and began appreciating it. The third time i genuinly enjoyed it. youtube.com/watch?v=wu03mQCnMoA
Jason Edwards
to this day I have no fucking idea what he meant by this.
Kayden Morales
t. innocent soul who has never listened to rap
Blake Jackson
I've listened to plenty of rap. where's the screaming? where's the jungle?
