Talk:List of socialist songs
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Eumn.... a list of socialist songs?! haha well er...
Katuscha by all means is not a socialist song. just a friendly love song about a girl who is waiting for her friend to return from the war.
And well... As a Trotskyist... I can't say I think the Hymn of the USSR and those 2 Chinese songs are Socialist...
But even then... if you think they are... they are not as importiant as the Internationale, The Red flag, the marxist ABC and all that kind of stuff.
Bobby Siecker
- I'm skeptical about this list. I think that socialist movement/labour movement songs makes sense (see Jacob's list of labor songs below). Songs of "socialist" countries, this makes less sense. Songs by any socialist band (as previous version of page said) seems to me a really bad idea - too many notability issues.
[edit] Other Labor Songs
I'm not sure what people intend to include or exclude here. I wrote up the following entries but decided to move them to the talk page until we can reach some consensus.
- We Have Fed You All for a Thousand Years - An Unknown Proletarian, 1908.[1]
- Workingmen, Unite - by E.S. Nelson, 1908.[2]
- The Banner of Labor - anonymous, 1908.[3]
- Paint 'Er Red - Ralph Chaplin or Elmer Rumbaugh, 1913.[4]
- The Rebel's Toast - Joe Hill, 1914.[5]
- Solidarity Forever - Ralph Chaplin, 1915.[6]
- Commonwealth of Toil - Ralph Chaplin.[7]
And yes, I'm starting with Kornbluh because it's easiest to get though one source, noting the more famous of the class-struggle-oriented songs, and then the next source, and so on. Jacob Haller 19:26, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
- All good suggestions. I'd say put 'm in. What about "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night"? (Is that by Woody Guthrie?) BobFromBrockley 15:05, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
