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Libs vs Leftists. Learn the difference.
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With respect to The Internationale, that's just not a banger like Bella Ciao is. If I'm thinking of 'let's oppose a fascist regime and/or do some Operation Gladio shit in 1970's Italy while carrying submachineguns, dressed in leather jackets and balaclavas', Bella Ciao is a much more appropriate choice for a modern era.
A lot of the versions of The Internationale that I've heard sound more like school plays. It's not something one would describe as 'rousing'.
Disagree. Watch Reds.
Did you say "do Gladio shit"? Like enlist fascists, virulent anti-communists that they are, to carry out terrorist attacks against civilian populations to then blame on communists in order to crush the influence of socialists in government and justify purges of socialists and communists from every sphere of life? That gladio shit?
The revolution will not be won by beautiful dead, tears in their eyes, clutching their rifles. It will be won by a political revolution of the working class for the benefit of all. There will certainly be fighting, of which the internationale sings about explicitly:
Re: Gladio: no, not the bad bits that cropped up eventually, but the original purpose of fighting an oppressive regime that's taken hold within your own borders. Don't take it TOO seriously :D
I'd love to see a bloodless political revolution. But past history leads me to believe there's gonna be guns involved somewhere down the line for there to be actual change.