Ironically, if Guthrie were alive today the Left would probably have no use for him. He was an Okie cracker, after all.
famous old commie.
It’s just a song, supposed to fire someones imagination. If you don’t like, hit the button...
When I’m drivin’ in my car
And that man comes on the radio
He’s tellin’ me more and more
About some useless information
Supposed to fire my imagination
I can’t get no, oh no, no, no
Hey hey hey, that’s what I say
- the great philosophers, Jagger and Richards
Mrs. Lurkin’s dopey sister thinks it is a “patriotic” song!
Springsteen, with his pompous sense of self importance disgusts me any day of the week. Hearing the wealthy hypocrite singing Guthrie’s verse about private property would probably make throw up a little in my mouth at the very least.
Remember this Parody?
Out in the country, far from a highway
There is this land here, and it is my way
Don’t ever come here, or you’ll be sorry
This land was made just for me
This land is my land,it isn’t your land
I got a shotgun, and you don’t got none
If you don’t get off, I’ll blow your head off
This land was made just for me
So keep away now, don’t ruin my day now
My property’s private, you cannot buy it
Go find your own land, just be a lone man
This land was made just for me
This land is my land,it isn’t your land
I got a shotgun, and you don’t got none
If you don’t get off, I’ll blow your head off
This land was made just for me
The Marxist world view is a standard part of contemporary education which is permeated with Marxist exploitation theory, the labor theory of value,the idea that division of labor causes alienation and narrowness,denunciations of capitalism,claims that capitalists appropriate surplus labor time from women and children,claims that capitalists lengthen the working day to the maximum possible limit, claims that profits are made by underpayment of labor, claims that capitalism cause progressive impoverishment of the masses, claims that there is a tendency toward ever increasing economic concentration under capitalism,claims that the value of labor itself is determined by the quantity of labor required to produce it,the claims that capitalists will try to reduce wages to subsistence levels.
“Well it’s always we ramble, this river and I
All along your green valleys, I’ll work til I die
And this land I’ll defend with my life if need be
For my pastures of plenty must always be free”
Now and then, when he didn’t let too much of the Marxist fairy dust cloud his thinking, Mr. Guthrie saw things a bit more clearly….
Moe Asch, of Folkway Records, who published most of this stuff is a relative of mine. I had some first edition remastered CDs. You don't pick your relatives. (Moses's brother John was my godfather. Wonderful man. Tried to save Jews in Vichy France and to publicize the Holocaust. Undersecretary of State Breckenridge Long put an end to this by threatening to have uncle John expelled from the Vichy consulate without his papers, a death sentence.)