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Uploaded by on Apr 27, 2009

Recorded at the Dakota apartment in NY in 1980. It can be found on "The John Lennon Collection" CD. There are two CD's with that title. The one with interviews is prefaced by "The Legends Collection"

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  • I'm opening this up for comments and I'm staying out of it. Try to keep it clean, OK? I don't have time to monitor it. John was a free speech guy so here we go!

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  • @glennberkusa100 Nice quote, stole that from Thatcher i see. hmmm its not true.

  • he doesn't dismiss socialism at all but he does dismiss idol worship. However, I have heard him say "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"

  • I never heard him "slam socialism". Didn't think I would. A great man who was more left-wing than you know!

  • The problem with socialism is, pretty soon you run out of other people’s money. Look at Greece and the rest of Europe.

  • @COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY no he summarily dismisses socialism as a failed ideology in one well fell swoop of a sentence. there are partial social controls that coupled with a pure free market economy would be as close to perfect as we can get. capitalism coupled with federal control falls into facism, just as we are seeing the fruits that the globalists are now sowing. again one or true socialist practices in specialized cases amended properly would be fine. the Constitution is the final say on this

  • My Momma Says Obama-Occupy

  • @COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY Exactly what I was thinking.

  • @FlourescentPotato

    The first use of the word in political terms was in 1847 when anarcho-communist Joseph Dejacque wrote a letter criticizing fellow anarchist Proudhon for his sexism,racism and his belief in public property and a market system. Dejacque said that Proudhon was "A liberal not a libertarian".

    Outside America the word still holds most of it's former meaning. For example the Movimiento Libertrio Cubano, or Cuban Libertarian Movement, is fiercely anti-capitalist.

  • @CzechAvailabilitie i wouldn't call your definitions accurate.

  • @FlourescentPotato

    Well from the mid 19th century up until the mid 20th century "libertarian" was used to describe anarcho-communists and anarcho-syndicalists. The hijacking of the word by minarchist capitalists is very recent.

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