Banks of Marble - by Pete Seeger

[danielbarret1025]

This is one "honorable" video. =p

[olbywong717c]

Your video is a favorite on Haiti

[RWRizzo]

Pete is a treasure to the world. His thoughtful songs continue to inspire people all over. This is one of the great ones!

[heartfire451]

We had a chance to let those banks fall and fail. And we let them bail themselves out with our money. Most of the Banksters are still nothing but thieves and liars.

[podcastshmodcast]

still my favorite version of this song. Even Leonard Cohen is here on you tube with an interpretation, but very poor quality. Go seee the Documentary about Pete Seeger after you hear this. Talk about a real MANS man....

[holyrthanu]

Tell them the truth Pete!

May others pick up and follow your lead.

Thanks for posting

[meaford12]

agree with him or not, he has a great voice & presence, still singing at 90 years old!

We should all be so commited to a cause

[terrible99]

Pete Seeger is a true American Patriot not like those Tea Party idiots who only standing up for corporate interest. Pete stands for the FOR THE PEOPLE and NOT for the Corporations. That why guys like the Koch brothers and Glenn Beck don't like him.

[janetiz1]

Great, Pete Seeger. Living legend. God bless, Pete.

[AndrisGreen]

what banks are made of marble anymore, where is the silver, it's all imaginary money, the stuff of our internet belief system that money exists tangibly. True money is energy, from one to another pass it on... as due and needed.

[MarkiRollmops]

Nice video

[mariolopez420]

Category: Sports

[kimchrysanthemum]

I just saw a documentary about him today. I love this guy!

[paxamericanafilms]

beautiful song. crap video. beautiful song. ah, the politics, ah, the socialist democratic sentiment! George Orwell would be proud. Pass the beer nuts. Work harder you peanut pickers. need the peanuts. need. want. banks are made of peanuts. marble. pisssh! two legs good. four legs good. legs good. legs bad. something...nice song!

[dsteding]

@paxamericanafilms - thank you.

[zacharylutz5]

@dsteding orwell was a socialist. he was anti-stalinist but believed in and supported social democracy. i'm sure he he spins in his grave daily as uninformed right wingers perpetually misappropriate his legacy.

[smeejit]

Communism vs capitalism: any country that's tried communism or socialism has been aggressively opposed by the capitalist powers, the chief of them being the USA.

[IllogicalJim]

What I don't understand is the hypocrisy of American neo-liberal democracy. How can otherwise-sensible people express support for both political democracy and economic autocracy?

It is only logical that Democracy go hand in hand with Socialism.

[deamonchilder]

@IllogicalJim I'm not arguing with your point or anything, not agreeing with it either.... But dude, your screen name literally says your "Illogical."

[Crazydog7]

Solidarity Forever.

[OneMoreDawkinsFan]

Thanks for uploading! I heard this PS song for the first time today! A jewel!

[MrBigwong]

Down with Goldman Sachs!

[Hikikomori013]

Winston Churchill watched the Soviet Union at close range and noted: "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

Everywhere communism has been tried has suffered mass starvation over time, from early Soviet Union to modern N. Korea.

Capitalism results in some being rich and others being poor, but a rising standard of living over all. China thought that a fair compromise when they opened their economy.

[malachy1847]

@Hikikomori013 I wouldn't pay too much attention to Mr Churchill as he was an merely an old Colonialist despot .... The Banks are now being bailed out they call it .recapitalisation... what with all those toxic loans and Derivatives imploding Banks worldwide.. outhers are indeed picking up the tab for this debt... it's now just past onto the working poor . Thats Socialism for the rich.... Socialize the Debts and Privatize the Profits..... More Banks rob people than people rob Banks...

[tellyontellyon]

Don't vote democrat or republican idiots!

Build a new mass workers party and sweep the whole capitalist class away for ever.

Read: Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky and Connolly.

[FAEMINOSMITH]

once upon a time Edmund Wilson dared to say that USA would be socialist... at that time workers knew they were workers. Now they are just consumers...

I saw on the last Michael Moore movie that there is only one socialist at the parliament... only one!!! Let's not forget who we are, whoe our grandparents were and their struggles for rights!!!

[BadReligion8191]

...and be sure to vote republican so that your hard earned money isn't even given to you in the first place, your job is shipped overseas, and industry continues to be unregulated at the expense of the worker so that this country has one million wealthy citizens and 331 million poor ones!

[Eusobios]

'Nuff said.

[Alfrunk]

...and be sure to vote democrat so your hard earned money can go to washington!

[edgeyp12]

blow up every bank in the world!

[MStock57]

Great song. Still relevant in current times.

[stb9696]

I used to play this song on the guitar when I was a teen-ager before I knew better. Now I'm a banker! (Just kidding!)

[jvbiddington]

Don't shoot the guards ! they are workers too and I don't reckon that they earn very much money either. Workers already suffer enough at the hands of the Banks - they need to be tightly regulated.

[KennBurch]

Well, give the guards better jobs then. They can stay-they just wouldn't get to help the banks steal the people's money anymore.

We need to put our financial system under democratic control. If we have deposits, we should have a real say in what the money we deposit is used for.

[jvbiddington]

I absolutely agree about putting the banks under democratic control - and that there should be absolutely transparency about what the banks do with the deposits and who they pay in the political system and for what. I won't bank with a corporate bank - I use a credit union - a local one and they are more democratic, better managed and behave in the interests of the community. The big banks won't get any money from me.

[issengorin]

We'll blow up the banks of marble

shoot the guard on every door

we'll share out the vaults of silver

that we workers sweated for

hasta la vittoria siempre!!!

[mys11]

After the financial plundering of the last 8 years, it seems to me we need another set of words ... "The banks have lost their marbles ..."

[kotomo1]

"By trusting your own heart, you shall gain more confidence in other men. For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted, that all men have sublime thoughts; that all men value the few real hours of life; they love to be heard; they love to be caught up into the vision of prnciples." - The Divinity School Address (1838) by Ralph Waldo Emerson

[RoseShattuck]

Pete Seeger!! Outstanding yesterday and today. Timeless...

[dsteding]

How true! The voice of truth never grows old, does it?

[adifilms]

Yes, this song is more relevant than ever today.

Pete just celebrated his 90th birthday, and he's still going strong. As for singing for Obama, Peter Yarrow was recently in Israel, and he told me that originally Bruce Springsteen was invited by the organizing committee to sing "This Land is Your Land" on his own, and he made his appearance conditional on singing it together with Seeger. Obama's people agreed. And yes, Pete did pay his dues during the McCarthy period.

[tigercubkitten]

First of all, this isn't a "workers' rights" song nor is it simply a critique of the banks. The important point isn't that the banks are rich, but rich with the wealth produced by workers and farmers and appropriated by the capitalist class. That's why it mentions the relative impoverishment of miners, farmers, and so on. It's anti-wage slavery.

Second, the song urges the working class to take control of the means of production. This isn't a "right" under capitalism, though it is a necessity!

[dsteding]

Great points; all. Thanks for the commentary -- right on the "money".

[ljackier]

The more things change, the more they stay the same. This song suddenly does not sound dated anymore.

It's so great that Pete Seeger is no longer on the black list - he's singing for the president!

[dsteding]

Isn't it the truth? Thanks for your comments!

Dan

[tigercubkitten]

It never sounded dated, you fiend. Exploition doesn't and won't suddenly end because there's a democrat in the white house.

As for being invited to sing by Obama, well, that just proves that Pete Seeger was a poseur. Utah Phillips et al. would never have consorted with the political leader of the capitalist class.

[ozonekidd]

Poseur? Pete took his knocks while a member of CP and while singing with the Weavers, Woody Guthrie, Robeson, Mahalia Jackson, and scores of other committed activists. He was on the blacklist, got grilled by HUAC, investigated by J.Edgar Hoover, and is still active during his elder years. I never agreed with all of his points of view, being from his left, but I can't dismiss his work with a french insult.

[tigercubkitten]

Yeah, because membership in the CP -- practically the left wing of the Democratic Party -- is really a sign of being a radical. This guy's a petty-bourgeois democrat.

[peoplestandup]

This very nice song one I never heard before thanks!