All You Fascists - Billy Bragg

Socialism Kills Fascists! Great song written by Woody Guthrie and sung by Billy Bragg.

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[tdottim]

GREAT song...BUT..."socialism kills fascists?? LOL. I think you need to look up Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei

[blackiron60]

@tdottim Its called hijacking a word in order to steal votes from traditionally left-wing districts. I did my master's thesis on why people supported Hitler and the use of the term "socialist" by a violently reactionary right-wing party, the Nazis, was an attempt to win support from German working people - it never worked. German workers never truly supported the Nazi cause and the violently pro-big business economic policies pursued by Hitler once in power prove he was no socialist.

[agunatak]

@blackiron60 I agree with what you're saying for the most part - anyone who thinks that Nazism is representative of socialism is a complete moron and is watching too much Fox News. But Nazism is not the same as nationalistic capitalism - the Nazis had plenty of anti-business policies, including increasing welfare and taking profits from heavy industry. Also it's pretty silly to use Soviet imagery with this song, considering the USSR was just as terrible a regime at times as Nazi Germany.

[blackiron60]

@agunatak It would be silly, if you believed all the lies Robert Conquest and other assorted right-wing historians have been trying to spread about Stalin and the USSR for the last 70 odd years. It's hard to take seriously historians whose original sources were from the pro-Nazi Hearst newspaper empire or from pro-Nazi Ukrainian emigres.

[cfortunato58]

Anybody who thinks the Nazis were socialist must think the People's Republic of China is Republican.

[crozzerz88]

the irony of communism and something that hypocriteical scum like billy bragg refuse to admit is that soviet communism was created by capitalist bankers in the USA (Jacob schiiff) and in Britiain (Rothschilds)

This FACT is well documented, and was widely known at the time.

The truth is out there for anyone who cares to look for it.

[ourhandsaretied]

@agunatak

You clearly know nothing about the USSR or other Soviet countries then. Nor does Bragg btw, he's no more than a pishy social democrat who loves fame.

[iliesko]

@tdottim better learn some history.....who beat the nazis and fascist back in WWII??? USSR about 85% of the war the rest the other allies........so fuck off...the only one that can destroy fascism is socialism...what was in germany was a fascist regime masked as a national socialsm...no such thing....

[NiceGuyCody]

Fascism is just Socialism followed to it's logical, inevitable conclusion. YouTube comments by revisionism-spouting, holocaust-denying Campus Jackboots aren't going to change that.

[JosephSurface]

It would also be silly to leave out the Soviet imagery considering they bore the brunt of the cost of defeating Nazi Germany.

[Mahacanda]

I think its time for a defintion: Socialism is the control of the factors of production by the state.

By this definition, National-Socialism was not really socialist; the state did not exert direct control, but rather engaged in cooperative measures with major industrialists. This is Corporatism.

So I think we can all quiet down now and stop calling the Nazis either Socialist or Capitalist. They were neither.

[BeardleProductions]

@dutchjoens Then we all raise as one and slay the ones who want to kill like Capitalists.

[cfortunato58]

In the US, it was the socialists who opposed Hitler. The conservative America Firsters thought we should let him be. This song was written by Woody Guthrie, a socialist.

But hell, a socialist also wrote the Pledge of Allegiance.