Originally Posted by elphenor

Well yes they'd want the full Marxist dream ultimately, if they could have things entirely their way: no nations, workers united, etc.

It's a sort of shoot for the moon "this is what humanity should strive to become" type approach. It is preachy as all hell and not something I'd look for in music, but the ideas I agree with on a strictly ideological basis.

But criticizing the disastrous form of vulture capitalism the US practices which is entirely based upon the exploitation of others is not some form of Utopian behavior

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.