Leon Rosselson - Song of the Old Communist (1999)

  • Leon Rosselson - Song of the Old Communist

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    • Artist: Leon Rosselson
    • Song: Song of the Old Communist
    • Length: 05:42
    • View count: 78,712
    • Uploaded: 2012-11-21

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    • Fuck the capitalist that dived us workers of the world I love you, no matter if you are Russian, American, Brazilian, Chinese, Japanese, South African or France or where ever you life we will rise again and be free!

    • Glory to to the ever approaching march of the Vanguard! Glory to Socialism! Glory to the martyrs and the heroes! Our cause is just and victory will be ours!

    • The main theme of failing socialism/anarchism/syndicalism etc was infact Stalin. That guy fucked all of us and he still keeps on fucking us from his grave - we never recovered from his knife in our back.. and its damn sad some of us still praise this son of a bitch facepalm9000

    • This song reminds me about my grandfather who spend most of his life fighting for socialism, for our Peoples Republic. And after fall of soviet block and triumph of neoliberalism in Poland all what he built was stolen or destroyed by international banks, corporations and polish oligarchy. One day when I was teenager and my granfather was yet very old and sick he told me:- "no matter who you will - engineer, teacher or what ever - promis me that you will always work in honest way and YOU ALWAYS WILL BE ON WORKERS SIDE."- "I promise" - I said.When he was dying I sang The Internationale saying goodbye to him last time.When his body was lowered to the grave I threw a red rose on the coffin and I said: "Do not worry, grandpa, the next time we do it better. I promise."This is my story about old communist. Strugle goes on.

    • Thanks for that, Leon. So many years compressed into a three minute song. Pathos, nostalgia, history, determination, and hope for the future. The struggle continues . . .

    • But yes we defended the First Workers State, in face of the slander and lies of the press. And you who have nothing at all to believe in, you whose motto is money comes first. Who are you to tell us that our lives have been wasted?, and all that we fought for has turned into dust.