Music with a leftist message

Too often this song is seen as an unwavering patriotic song, which to me indicates that people aren't paying attention to all the lyrics. This song is about the country forcing the poor and downtrodden to go to war on behalf of people they will never meet and then expected to, somehow, return to normal. When understood in it's appropriate context, this song is better than anything uncritical listeners hear.

This is another legendary classic. Seeing the protest crackdowns on college students had me thinking about this song for the last few days.

I humbly submit some dance by elder statesmen of the genre.

Aside from a cracking beat, it's a complete piss-take of modern, forward-thinking, community-first terminology.

Take your anger out on the dancefloor, and solidarity.

(And, in case I failed to embed the link in the title, here it is .)

Watching this video (probably 15 years ago) was the moment I realised I was left wing.

Edit: didn't put the URL in the URL spot. Wasn't thinking, sorry.

I'm pretty sure every song on this album would fit here. Also probably like 85 % of the folk-punk genre.

Hope you enjoy.

Is this how you want to live your lives?

inside the vultures circle

can you feel the talons in your neck?

Only the strong survive you say?

Just pray that prey you don't become

You've got no time for safety nets

There are no alpha wolves

Only those struggling to survive the state of nature

Domestic animals lost without the trappings of their civilization

You like to play armchair eugenicist, militant pessimist

An ivory tower that's built upon

the product of a million labors

Regression to the mean, repression of the weak

fraudulent pyramid scheme of human hierarchy

Do you ever wonder why you've been deprived

the wealth of nations?

do you feel the trickle down your leg?

Preoccupied with war against your own and your own home

How is it you're not already dead?

Another failed experiment

Evidence suggests you will not pass the last great filter

The soldiers won't defend the hive

when the Queen neglects to satisfy the builders

You like to play the devil's advocate, passive and impotent

brood over fallen empires

That were built upon the bones of millions

Narrow minded sanctimonious

self-serving sophistry

Greed governing holiness?

Not in the version I have seen.

You will not see the stars

doomed to the tides

access denied, fated to die