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 Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 6:02 pm
Want to see, hear, or read revolutionary stuff, but don't know where to get any? Here is your solution. This is a compilation of revolutionary music, literature (stuff other then straight up Marxist theory, email me if you want to know about various philosophical stuff), and film. Most of it's American, and therefore easy to purchase in America. If you have any additions at all just post and I'll add them to the list. Viva La Revolution! Directly Political FILM-Catch A Fire (Great recent film About the South African Revolution, written by Joe Slovo's son, Joe Slovo is in the movie, portrayed by an actor of course, google him if the name is unfamiliar) -Malcolm X (by Spike Lee, this is pretty self-explanatory) - Do the Right Thing (Another Spike Lee film about the hottest day of the year on a racially diverse street where racial tention is skyrocketing, an essential movie) -O Lucky Man (A great film, thought up by Malcolm McDowell about capitalism- warning, there are some very sexually explicit scenes) - A Clockwork Orange (Another film featuring Malcolm McDowell, directed by Stanley Kubrick, this is a great portayal of the evils of brainwashing, based off a great book) -The Grapes of Wrath (About a farm family kicked off their land by big buisiness and forced into poverty, based off a great book) -V for Vendetta (About an anarchist revolution in not too far off Britain, it's also damn cool, and recomended even more for those who dig things blowing up) -The Harder they Come (A gret Jamaican film about a reggae singer turned pot dealer turned cop killer turned fugitive turned political hero) Indirectly political or intellectual FILM-Fight Club (Interesting film, not extremly political but a great movie none the less) -Pi (Another interesting film about obsession over a concept, also an extremly cool film) -Donnie Darko (A movie about mental illness, and what it leads to and the fallings of medication and therapy when the situation at home is not mended, also a damn cool movie, although a bit cryptic on the first go) -The Matrix Trilogy/Animatrix (About revolution and choice, I didn't like the third or second Matrix much, but it's a matter of taste) -Casshern (I haven't seen this one, if Rick_Vegas would like to post a blurb on it...) -A Scanner Darkly (A movie about drugs, paranoia, and surveilance) Directly Political MUSIC-Peter Tosh (great first wave ska muscision, check out things like "Equal Rights" or "No Nuclear War") -Jimmy Cliff (Did the music and starred in "The Harder they Come") -Catch 22 (third wave ska band, they have an album about Trotsky!) -The Subhumans (anarchist punk at its finest) -Dead Kennedys (just good politics, a great old school punk band) -Redskins (militant socialist skinhead band from a time past, awesome power soul with one of the best singers I've ever heard) -Rage Against the Machine (revolutionary working class band, indefinable in genre but kinda hard rock rap funk) -Angelic Upstarts (Oi!/Punk socialists, communists, and anarchists) -Bad Religion (kinda post-punk, I don't like them much but they have pretty good politics) -Billy Bragg (great guy, accoustic punk with socialism, unionism, and some other stuff) -The Clash (socialist punks, the originals, truly incredable) -Crass (another anarchist punk band) -The Exploited (very hardcore band, anarchists) -Reagan Youth (Anarcho Communist punks) -Immortal Technique (A really intense rapper that's also very political, I like his cd "Revolutionary Vol. 2) -Dead Prez (Socialist rap group, much less offensive then Immortal technique due to the fact that they're better on the issue of women's rights) -The Beatles (I don't like them much, but they're a '60s groups advocating peace and they were anti-war) -Workers' United Front- I recently heard their cd, they're a small punk band that plays old folk songs. Their cd can be found online for free (google them), and it has punk renditions of songs from Le Internationale to Bread and Roses, The Preacher and the Slave, Joe Hill, The Red Flag, The Digger's Song, and more. Get it! Directly political LITERATURE-The Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck (great book about working class struggles) -In Dubious Battle- John Steinbeck (one of my favorite books, it's about members of the communist party organizing a migrant worker's strike, it's an incredable work of literature and an essential read) -1984- George Orwell (About Stalin's oppressive policy, a subject of heavy debate) -Animal Farm- George Orwell (a pro-communist book about how communism can be corrupted, another book that's a subject of heavy debate) -Homage to Catalonia- George Orwell (Thanks to GenericMarxist for showing me this work, it's about a trip to anarcho-communist Spain during the Spanish Civil War, here's the link to a free version- http://www.george-orwell.org/Homage_to_Catalonia/index.html ) -The Jungle- Upton Sinclair (a book about slaughterhouse workers in the meat industry, it's quite inspiring, here's a quote from the author "I wanted to turn people's hearts with my book, but I ended up just turning their stomachs") -All Quiet on the Western Front- Erich Maria Remarque (an incredbale book about the horrors and evils of war, set from the point of view of several German soldiers in World War One) -Johnny Got his Gun- Dalton Trumbo (One of the most powerful books ever written, about a man who had his limbs blown off in Vietnam and has no functioning sences left, if this book doesn't affect you then you have a problem) I'll post more later. Any favorite films or bands of you guys?
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:51 pm
I love The Clash.
Not too sure what other groups out there really dig into politics. Movie-wise; 9th ROTA is a really great film (personally I think.) All about the Soviet-Afghan war.
EDIT: V for Vendetta. Epic movie is epic, and shares a wonderful message. 'FREEDOM! FOREVER!'
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 6:54 pm
Bands/Artists:
-Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution
-The Beatles/John Lennon
-Immortal Technique
-Streetlight Manifesto
-Rage Against the Machine
Rock Operas:
-THE PROTOMEN (The Protomen)
-Pink Floyd (The Wall)
-Rush (2112)
-Styx (Kilroy Was Here)
Movies:
These aren't so much Communist/Socialist, though most have elements of it. They're simply intellectual material. Many have political implications if you look deep enough.
-Fight Club
-Pi
-Donnie Darko
-The Matrix Trilogy/Animatrix
-Casshern
-A Scanner Darkly
-A Clockwork Orange
(Also, V for Vendetta is by far my favorite movie.)
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 7:12 pm
Rick _Vegas Bands/Artists: -Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution -The Beatles/John Lennon -Immortal Technique -Streetlight Manifesto -Rage Against the Machine Rock Operas: -THE PROTOMEN (The Protomen) -Pink Floyd (The Wall) -Rush (2112) -Styx (Kilroy Was Here) Movies: These aren't so much Communist/Socialist, though most have elements of it. They're simply intellectual material. Many have political implications if you look deep enough. -Fight Club -Pi -Donnie Darko -The Matrix Trilogy/Animatrix -Casshern -A Scanner Darkly -A Clockwork Orange (Also, V for Vendetta is by far my favorite movie.) You rock. I love those movies, especially Pi, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, and A Clockwork Orange which is one of my favorite movies of all time. Kubrick rocks, have you read the book? It's even better, the British version is the bestbecause they cut the last chapter out of the American one, and the last chapter is the one that explains that brainwashing doesn't work. An older movie that is great is The Grapes of Wrath, but the book by John Steinbeck is better (if you like Rage you may have heard the song The Ghost of Tom Joad which is a cover of a Bruce Springsteen song about The Grapes of Wrath's main character). My favorite book by Steinbeck though is In Dubious Battle, which is about a communist organizer organizing the workers. It's really a great work of art. Here's a good Steinbeck quote from the Grapes of Wrath by the way- "I figure a communist is anyone who asks for 20 cents when they're being payed ten." Another great book is The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I could name loads of great books. Here's another fee good political bands/artists (I may've named one or two earlier)- Bruce Springsteen, Woody Guthrie (one of the greatest songwriters ever), Joe Hill (a songwriter, activist, poet, and great man executed under trumped up charges, legend says that the firing squad said "ready, aim" and Joe shouted "Fire!"), MC5, Catch 22. Ranting is fun.
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 11:13 pm
The Leninator! You rock. I love those movies, especially Pi, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, and A Clockwork Orange which is one of my favorite movies of all time. Kubrick rocks, have you read the book? It's even better, the British version is the bestbecause they cut the last chapter out of the American one, and the last chapter is the one that explains that brainwashing doesn't work. An older movie that is great is The Grapes of Wrath, but the book by John Steinbeck is better (if you like Rage you may have heard the song The Ghost of Tom Joad which is a cover of a Bruce Springsteen song about The Grapes of Wrath's main character). My favorite book by Steinbeck though is In Dubious Battle, which is about a communist organizer organizing the workers. It's really a great work of art. Here's a good Steinbeck quote from the Grapes of Wrath by the way- "I figure a communist is anyone who asks for 20 cents when they're being payed ten." Another great book is The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I could name loads of great books. Here's another fee good political bands/artists (I may've named one or two earlier)- Bruce Springsteen, Woody Guthrie (one of the greatest songwriters ever), Joe Hill (a songwriter, activist, poet, and great man executed under trumped up charges, legend says that the firing squad said "ready, aim" and Joe shouted "Fire!"), MC5, Catch 22. Ranting is fun. Ha. Also, apparently Tom Petty is awesome as well. My friend's mom had box seats to his show from her company, but when they got up there, there were people sitting in their seats. So they were like "The eff?" And Tom Petty was moving around all box seat people and general admission people in order to deconstruct socio-economic gaps. Isn't that amazing? I've never actually read all of Wrath, but I watched a movie on it in 7th grade, when I didn't know any better. Maybe I should revisit it. Those other books look like a good read as well. I read the wikipedia page on a Clockwork Orange in order to supplement my knowledge of the movie, but sadly have yet to obtain a copy of the actual book. My favorite books are probably anything by Aldous Huxley (Doors of Perception, Island, Brave New World) or George Orwell (Animal Farm, 1984).
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Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 5:51 am
Rick _Vegas The Leninator! You rock. I love those movies, especially Pi, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, and A Clockwork Orange which is one of my favorite movies of all time. Kubrick rocks, have you read the book? It's even better, the British version is the bestbecause they cut the last chapter out of the American one, and the last chapter is the one that explains that brainwashing doesn't work. An older movie that is great is The Grapes of Wrath, but the book by John Steinbeck is better (if you like Rage you may have heard the song The Ghost of Tom Joad which is a cover of a Bruce Springsteen song about The Grapes of Wrath's main character). My favorite book by Steinbeck though is In Dubious Battle, which is about a communist organizer organizing the workers. It's really a great work of art. Here's a good Steinbeck quote from the Grapes of Wrath by the way- "I figure a communist is anyone who asks for 20 cents when they're being payed ten." Another great book is The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I could name loads of great books. Here's another fee good political bands/artists (I may've named one or two earlier)- Bruce Springsteen, Woody Guthrie (one of the greatest songwriters ever), Joe Hill (a songwriter, activist, poet, and great man executed under trumped up charges, legend says that the firing squad said "ready, aim" and Joe shouted "Fire!"), MC5, Catch 22. Ranting is fun. Ha. Also, apparently Tom Petty is awesome as well. My friend's mom had box seats to his show from her company, but when they got up there, there were people sitting in their seats. So they were like "The eff?" And Tom Petty was moving around all box seat people and general admission people in order to deconstruct socio-economic gaps. Isn't that amazing? I've never actually read all of Wrath, but I watched a movie on it in 7th grade, when I didn't know any better. Maybe I should revisit it. Those other books look like a good read as well. I read the wikipedia page on a Clockwork Orange in order to supplement my knowledge of the movie, but sadly have yet to obtain a copy of the actual book. My favorite books are probably anything by Aldous Huxley (Doors of Perception, Island, Brave New World) or George Orwell (Animal Farm, 1984). Yeah, you'll have to excuse me if some of my posts from yesterday are a bit garbled. I was running on a very, very large quantity of caffene. I'm ok today. Welcome to the guild! Yeah we had a discussion on Orwell in here a few days ago, about his communist roots and ideas. My favorite authors are Jean-Paul Sartre (his fiction and non-fiction are both amazing), Pushkin and Dostoefsky.
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Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 11:56 pm
The Leninator! Rick _Vegas The Leninator! You rock. I love those movies, especially Pi, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, and A Clockwork Orange which is one of my favorite movies of all time. Kubrick rocks, have you read the book? It's even better, the British version is the bestbecause they cut the last chapter out of the American one, and the last chapter is the one that explains that brainwashing doesn't work. An older movie that is great is The Grapes of Wrath, but the book by John Steinbeck is better (if you like Rage you may have heard the song The Ghost of Tom Joad which is a cover of a Bruce Springsteen song about The Grapes of Wrath's main character). My favorite book by Steinbeck though is In Dubious Battle, which is about a communist organizer organizing the workers. It's really a great work of art. Here's a good Steinbeck quote from the Grapes of Wrath by the way- "I figure a communist is anyone who asks for 20 cents when they're being payed ten." Another great book is The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I could name loads of great books. Here's another fee good political bands/artists (I may've named one or two earlier)- Bruce Springsteen, Woody Guthrie (one of the greatest songwriters ever), Joe Hill (a songwriter, activist, poet, and great man executed under trumped up charges, legend says that the firing squad said "ready, aim" and Joe shouted "Fire!"), MC5, Catch 22. Ranting is fun. Ha. Also, apparently Tom Petty is awesome as well. My friend's mom had box seats to his show from her company, but when they got up there, there were people sitting in their seats. So they were like "The eff?" And Tom Petty was moving around all box seat people and general admission people in order to deconstruct socio-economic gaps. Isn't that amazing? I've never actually read all of Wrath, but I watched a movie on it in 7th grade, when I didn't know any better. Maybe I should revisit it. Those other books look like a good read as well. I read the wikipedia page on a Clockwork Orange in order to supplement my knowledge of the movie, but sadly have yet to obtain a copy of the actual book. My favorite books are probably anything by Aldous Huxley (Doors of Perception, Island, Brave New World) or George Orwell (Animal Farm, 1984). Yeah, you'll have to excuse me if some of my posts from yesterday are a bit garbled. I was running on a very, very large quantity of caffene. I'm ok today. Welcome to the guild! Yeah we had a discussion on Orwell in here a few days ago, about his communist roots and ideas. My favorite authors are Jean-Paul Sartre (his fiction and non-fiction are both amazing), Pushkin and Dostoefsky. Haha, don't worry about it. I think I'm gonna kick up that thread with Orwell. I believe I could have something to add.
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 8:13 am
Wow I can't believe I forgot this one- Battleship Potempken
By the way, I'm going to organize all the stuff in this thread in one post and sticky it. Please continue making contributions comrades!
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:43 pm
Workers' United Front.
And by the way, the Beatles were directly non-political. They were very social, but not at all political. That's what Revolution is about. (You say you want a revolution... but if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao... You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow... Don't you know it's gonna be all right )
John Lennon was. And I believe Starr and Harrison both were. But McCartney isn't. At all.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:47 pm
Jake Gambino
Workers' United Front.
And by the way, the Beatles were directly non-political. They were very social, but not at all political. That's what Revolution is about. (You say you want a revolution... but if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao... You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow... Don't you know it's gonna be all right )
John Lennon was. And I believe Starr and Harrison both were. But McCartney isn't. At all.Yeah I put Workers' United Front on there a few weeks back, a friend of mine lent me their cd and I gotta say I really dig it. All hopes for an eventual tour from them, if so they should come to Austin, they'd get a good crowd. Anyway, I don't really like the Beatles myself, especially that song, but they do have their political elements in the ideas of peace and such. I dunno, I don't actually like them, but I can see how someone who does could see their politics, although not too radical, they are leftist.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:52 pm
First off, Orwell is entirely anti-Communist. He is a socialist though. And musically, try Rise Against. At firsth they just seem post-punk leftest music but deep in their lyrics is a Socialist core.
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Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 9:36 am
The Leninator! Wow I can't believe I forgot this one- Battleship Potempken By the way, I'm going to organize all the stuff in this thread in one post and sticky it. Please continue making contributions comrades! It's that the legendary movie with the baby carrage going down the steps in the middle of the battle? Or am I way off?
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Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:38 pm
Man's Powerful hands shall use this Hammer to Build
Woman's Delicate hands shall use this Sickle to Produce Aww we don't have Communist metal bands? i have like three dozens of NS Black Metal and Hardcore/Punk bands in my library. This shall go on for Eternity
With the New Frontier Establishing Ultimate Unity
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:19 pm
lura_angeles Man's Powerful hands shall use this Hammer to Build
Woman's Delicate hands shall use this Sickle to Produce Aww we don't have Communist metal bands? i have like three dozens of NS Black Metal and Hardcore/Punk bands in my library. This shall go on for Eternity
With the New Frontier Establishing Ultimate Unity There are several punk bands there, that being the main music I listen to. Crass, The Angelic Upstarts, The Subhumans, The Dead Kennedys, Billy Bragg (not hardcore but good, oldschool Joe Strummer style communist punk), The Clash and The Exploited are some of the best political punk bands ever. Check em' out.
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Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:03 am
The Leninator! lura_angeles Man's Powerful hands shall use this Hammer to Build
Woman's Delicate hands shall use this Sickle to Produce Aww we don't have Communist metal bands? i have like three dozens of NS Black Metal and Hardcore/Punk bands in my library. This shall go on for Eternity
With the New Frontier Establishing Ultimate Unity There are several punk bands there, that being the main music I listen to. Crass, The Angelic Upstarts, The Subhumans, The Dead Kennedys, Billy Bragg (not hardcore but good, oldschool Joe Strummer style communist punk), The Clash and The Exploited are some of the best political punk bands ever. Check em' out. A Man's Powerful hands will use this Hammer to Build
A Woman's Delicate hands will use this Sickle to Produce I'll sure give em a try.
By the way, not much of a Soviet Historian, but did the Viettes have NeoFolk or Classical Commie music? This shall go on for Eternity
With the New Frontier Establishing Ultimate Unity
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