Hippies and Communism

September 9th, 2005 by Fiar · 6 Comments ·

This is part two of an ever growing series, but it will be a brief one. I plan to do a whole series on Hippies, Communism, the Anti-War Left, And the agenda of the Democratic Party. Not daily mind you, even though the first installment was yesterday. Suggest a good title for the series, because that previous sentence is pretty unwieldy. (Note from the future- Didn’t happen~FIAR)

Yesterday I posted the agenda of the Communist Party USA, and concluded that it’s the same as that of the Democratic Party. There’s a reason for that, and part of that dates back to the Hippies, and the Anti-VietNam War movement, which was based in Communist idealism.

Today I cite the song Imagine, by an icon and leader of the hippies. “Bigger than Jesus,” remember? This song expresses that the world would be perfect, if we could all just submit to communism. (Reprinted without permission)

Imagine there’s no heaven,
It’s easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today…Imagine there’s no countries,
It isnt hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace…

Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world…

You may say I’m a dreamer,
but I’m not the only one,
I hope some day you’ll join us,
And the world will live as one.
Writen by: John Lennon
© Bag productions inc.

See. The ideal of those who now comprise the Democratic leadership. Compared with this:

Communism, a stage of development never reached anywhere yet, reduces the state apparatus to minimal administrative functions, since people and society will have advanced past the need for coercive functions like armies, and will directly and indirectly provide people with the full benefits of the labor they engage in.

Thanks for your comments on the previous post. I’ll be getting around to responding at some point. That’s it for today.
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6 responses so far ↓

1 the blue square // May 13, 2006 at 9:21 pm

Ah, indeed, you are correct, Master FIAR. Lennon, Lenin, what’s the difference? They come out both the same.

I also find the redundancy of Mr. Imagining Hippie annnoying.

“Imagine there’s no heaven…
No religion too”

Hmm. Big leap, I know, but I think that’s pretty much the same thing.

Thanks for commenting on my blog; I hope you and – what – 5 people now? – will continue to do so.
2 FIAR // May 14, 2006 at 1:14 pm

Give it time. Before you know it you’ll have 6 people.

Lennon, Lenin, what’s the difference? They come out both the same.

I always loved the irony there myself.
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5 qwertyuiop // Mar 7, 2009 at 8:40 pm

lenin kiss my black ass!!
lennon is good=)
thats the difference, i’m sorry i wrote a long list of reasons but my internet was playing tricks so i lost it and too tired to write it again
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