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John Lennon's Communist Manifesto “John Lennon, the legendary English co-lead singer of The Beatles and one of the most popular songwriters of the 20th century, was murdered 40 years ago, on December 8th, 1980 in New York City. A vocal opponent of the Vietnam War and a sharp critic of British government's crimes in Northern Ireland, Lennon expressed himself politically through some extraordinary songs. Among these are “Give Peace a Chance”, “Working Class Hero” and “Imagine”. Referring to the “Working Class Hero”, a masterpiece song which was released in his 1970's album “John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band”, Lennon said in an interview: “I think it's a revolutionary song – it's really just revolutionary. I just think its concept is revolutionary. I hope it's for workers and not for tarts and fags. I hope it's about what Give Peace a Chance was about. But I don't know – on the other hand, it might just be ignored. I think it's for the people like me 😏who are working class, who are supposed to be processed into the middle classes, or into the machinery. It's my experience, and I hope it's just a warning to people, Working Class Hero." As soon as you're born they make you feel small By giving you no time instead of it all Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be They hurt you at home and they hit you at school They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be When they've tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years Then they expect you to pick a career When you can't really function you're so full of fear A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV And you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be There's room at the top they're telling you still But first you must learn how to smile as you kill If you want to be like the folks on the hill A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be If you want to be a hero well just follow me If you want to be a hero well just follow me __________________ 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 isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people living life in peace, you 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 be as one Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people sharing all the world, you 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 be as one __________________ As for “Imagine”, which is widely regarded as Lennon's signature song, it expresses the songwriter's wish for a world without artificial divisions of the modern social order, including organized religion, economic class and geopolitical borders. For Lennon himself, “Imagine” was his own “Communist Manifesto”. According to him, “Imagine was “anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic, virtually the Communist Manifesto, although I am not particularly a communist and I do not belong to any movement… But because it is sugarcoated, it is accepted”. 😏 Indeed, John Lennon was certainly not a communist and far from being even a radical leftist. But he managed to express the vision of a better world without wars, poverty and exploitation in just twenty-two lines of lullaby rhyme. For this contribution Lennon deserves to be remembered as a revolutionary of music history. He was a dreamer; but he was not the only one.“ 😏 https://www.idcommunism.com/2020/12/john-lennons-communist-manifesto.html?m=1