At 1:45 Sarah paraphrases Marx and Engels in the background, singing: "The bourgeois, historically, has played a revolutionary part to end all feudal, idyllic relationships.
It has resolved personal worth and, in place of freedom, is exploitation for profit alone.
There is a spectre of the past in my bold assertion.
We could learn much from the past."
Sarah has written that she sings "destroyed" instead of "resolved," but I can't hear it - I think she's misremembering.
Interesting quote. And true - revolutions like the English "revolution" of 1641 and the French and American revolutions were definitely led by the affluent middle class and certain aristocrats (although this changed quickly in France and in America there were no aristocrats per se)and targetted monarchies and the organic feudal relationships kings had with even their poorest subjects...but I though Marx and Engels also praised this revolt as it would utimately lead to "communism" in the end.
@brutuscassius1@brutuscassius1 You're right, I think: that's the point of real historical thinking--every revolution is praiseworthy, even a bourgeois one, since every tectonic shift in history is a shift toward progress--the bourgeois economic arrangement of life's bad, though the revolution that brought it about is good--only because the former's stagnant, the latter was change.
@falstaffswims: funny how the whigs (and perhaps by extension the modern neo-conservatives) and communists share a view of history as progess. Tories, traditional tories, focus instead on organic roots and attempt to move forward with reference to the past.
Anyone have piano sheet?
SoapsAreStupid 2 months ago
I think you will find that it is Isobel Paraphrasing Marx and Engels
dfserafine 7 months ago
@dfserafine No, it's definitely Sarah not Isobel.
speranza91986 2 months ago
A great song, thougn I am wondering what this song has to do with Marx & Engels.
rainkame2 9 months ago
the outro sounds a bit like Erik Satie, sounds like autumn and it's beautiful!
rykkye 1 year ago
my favorite B & S song.
sunsplash1980 1 year ago
@sunsplash1980 shhhh....(wispers) mine too.
FlorrieDugger 2 months ago
queen anyone?
XIIIX 1 year ago
que dulce ahhhhhhhhh
polanyip 2 years ago
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BorisDay 2 years ago 11
this makes me sad.
genericusername337 2 years ago
At 1:45 Sarah paraphrases Marx and Engels in the background, singing: "The bourgeois, historically, has played a revolutionary part to end all feudal, idyllic relationships.
It has resolved personal worth and, in place of freedom, is exploitation for profit alone.
There is a spectre of the past in my bold assertion.
We could learn much from the past."
Sarah has written that she sings "destroyed" instead of "resolved," but I can't hear it - I think she's misremembering.
LtBlue14 2 years ago 24
Interesting quote. And true - revolutions like the English "revolution" of 1641 and the French and American revolutions were definitely led by the affluent middle class and certain aristocrats (although this changed quickly in France and in America there were no aristocrats per se)and targetted monarchies and the organic feudal relationships kings had with even their poorest subjects...but I though Marx and Engels also praised this revolt as it would utimately lead to "communism" in the end.
brutuscassius1 1 year ago
@brutuscassius1 @brutuscassius1 You're right, I think: that's the point of real historical thinking--every revolution is praiseworthy, even a bourgeois one, since every tectonic shift in history is a shift toward progress--the bourgeois economic arrangement of life's bad, though the revolution that brought it about is good--only because the former's stagnant, the latter was change.
falstaffswims 1 year ago
@falstaffswims: funny how the whigs (and perhaps by extension the modern neo-conservatives) and communists share a view of history as progess. Tories, traditional tories, focus instead on organic roots and attempt to move forward with reference to the past.
brutuscassius1 1 year ago
@LtBlue14 Perhaps she sings 'destroyed' live?
ModestMousekateer 1 year ago