At the end of the day, revolutionary change to our system of exploitation in production requires massive cultural change as well.
Who better than Jay-Z to usher it in? If only we could get him to read Marx...
Wolff claims that "The Left Has All The Best Songs for Half A Century".
I Strongly Disagree!
The following is the text of my comments on his post.
Do any of you care?
You will, when I am in a Ferrari or Jaguar switching four lanes. ....
Apologies in advance for this. If I hadn't just returned from a concert I would never bother to nitpick at something like this.
Respectfully speaking as both a Marxist and a fan of your blog...
People that are aiming to be in, singing about, etc. the bourgeois elite have released some musical masterpieces in the last 20 years.
The bourgeois culture I spend much my life subverting has given us a lot of good music. To be honest about it, I find most of the contemporary music of the left does nothing more than whine about being on the left.
The other side of this coin is that people unabashedly trying to get rich in our society have provided much of the best music of the past two decades.
For example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK-KFfYA2Vk
All good Detroit boys like myself love Seger, so I am not going to argue his greatness, I just want to point out that over the past 20 years or so leftist music has been much like the American social left: Unappealing to those without a vested interest, and fragmented.
The left used to have all the good songs, sure. The left today needs something to unite it, a good song would be a start, and it has been a while since we have had one.
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