adminine John Lennon needed half a century to change from the anthem to the music-political manifesto (post)liberal mainstream. present this song is definitely more current than at the minute of his recording. And despite appearances, it does not describe communist utopia.
Once again, a heated discussion about whether adminine is the musical equivalent Communist ManifestoOr just a naive song, an anthem of pacifist youth. Exceptionally, however, this time it is worth arguing for Lennon's hit, as the beginning ceremony of the Olympic Games gives the full issue a fresh context and shows how much ideas can transform over time and with them their social reception.
Because while the imagination of music changing reality, large stone idols kidnapping crowds into barricades does not appeal to me at all, it actually seems to me that popular music has this extraordinary feature that it can be a mirror of society – sometimes it perfectly reflects the trends and temper of the moment. It is like a photograph in this regard.
Worse Than Communism
adminine is treated by the right as a musical communist manifesto, Lennon himself stated so half with a gag (unless), half seriously. However, the case has a second bottom. Józef Piłsudski was going to say that communism and socialism viewed from far distant seem very similar, but if we look at them closely, we will see that they share almost everything. Similarly, the text adminine and Karl Marx's ideas. Communism has a circumstantial imagination of society – it is an ideology of change and action. Communism is simply a vital ideology, an ideology of rebellion and revolution: “The cursed uprisings of the people of the earth, the uprising of which hunger is tormented!” He gave it to Marks himself in the celebrated Feuerbach Thesis: “The Philosophers have only interpreted the world, but it is about changing it.” The point is not to dream about a better planet forever, but to begin to form it here and now – with strength of steel and muscles, and without saving sweat and tears. Marx and Engels (not to mention their heirs) were never pacifists, and with their imagination of the revolution they fit the Lennon text like a fist to the nose. So Jacob Dudek of the Jagiellonian Club seems to be right, who tweeted that Lennon's celebrated song "is something worse than communism – it's the most infantile nihilism."
The celebrated song well complements the lyrics of another celebrated and crucial song by Lennon, Godin which the musician names:
I don’t believe in magic
I don’t believe in I-ching
I don’t believe in Bible
I don’t believe in Tarot
I don’t believe in Hitler
I don’t believe in Jesus
...
I don’t believe in the Beatles
I just believe in me, Yoko, and me
That leaves me alone. Lennon doesn't want any revolution, Lennon doesn't want to fight, rise uprisings, execution bourgeois people, hang priests, and crap conservatives. There's nothing to do with this revolution. Make peace, not war. Stick the flower in the barrel of the gun, let go of Hendrix and light the weed – this is Lennon's full revolution.
In this vision, the only possible community is abstract humanity, for which this word can mean virtually anything. However, all circumstantial communities, real communities, become a origin of oppression.
Text from adminine Therefore, it is specified a good binder for today's West, due to the fact that it perfectly builds the thought of "doing what it wants" – it rejects the natural limitations imposed on us by all real community, taking off chains and drawing off an idyllic vision, where everyone will hold hands and no 1 will have any work towards anyone.
This is even logical in its own way, due to the fact that in fact the nation, the Church and the household restrict our sphere of freedom due to the fact that they do not treat it in the position of absolute value. Freedom for the Conservative is not the eventual goal. Only Robinson Crusoe on his lonely island can be full free. If we are part of a society, we naturally presume any of the limitations of participation in a larger community.
Of course, Lennon was not a philosopher, his words were intercepted, and a legendary musician himself would most likely be amazed at how diverse environments are reaching for his achievements and how they are presently interpreting him.
Marks falls in his grave
An interesting dichotomie outlines the fact that the author Communist Manifesto supported Polish independency spurs against European governments of the elites. present we see the other process – the constitution of the regulation of neo-aristocracy. The proletariat of the modern planet is slow becoming the full nations of the second category – the periphery of the progressive world.
It is besides hard to recognise that Marx and Engels would accept French displays from the beginning ceremony of the Olympics with peculiar enthusiasm. In 1 of Engels' letters, he warned his friend of something that could be described as a large homosexual conspiracy that secretly takes over governments:
"Pederats start counting themselves and discover that they are strength in the state. Only the organization was missing, but according to this It seems to already be in secret. And erstwhile they group crucial people in all the old and even fresh parties, from Rösing to Schweitzer, their triumph is inevitable. Thankfully, we ourselves are besides old to be afraid, in the event of the triumph of this party, that they will make us pay the winners with the body.”
Yet, the decryminalization of homosexuality was demanded in the 19th century. Are not Marx and Engels, the fathers of communism, not just homophobes, but even reprisals?
No, of course they're not. specified perception can only consequence from the liberal view of the planet that settled in the West. simply for Marx and Engels, politics was not limited to a stance towards sexual practices, and homosexual problems were marginal to them and had no relevance to the issue of revolution.
adminine, or at least what is left of it after half a century of reinterpretation, has no longer much to do with not only communism, but even social democracy which needs states and nations. erstwhile we destruct these political communities, all we have left is liberal post-socialism. There are no borders, everything is possible – after all, these slogans raised by today's "lennonists" have nothing to do with democratic socialism.
"There will be nothing" – states, nations, borders. Thus liberals become perfect heirs to the doctrine of Krzysztof Kononowicz.
The Western Hymn
Over half a century after adminine It came to light, Lennon's song became the actual anthem of the West. In 1970, ex-bitels described the planet of his dreams—an infantyl-nihilistic utopia. Today, in 2024, this imagination is closer to realization than always in history.
Modern Lennon continuators, taking adminine for their banners, but they are not left-wing. In fact, the imagination of the planet promoted by them is powerfully liberal or even pato-liberal and is simply a political reflection of postmodernism.
In this narrative, the political center is “normal” liberals who accept the full progressive set (abortion on request, homomaritalism, homoadopted, etc.), while “left” are not any defenders of the people only those liberals who make morals the essence of politics.
After all, Marks is not the ideology of the 21st century. It is not his ideas that form today's young minds. The chichoto of past is that in the postmodern position of our times the old philosopher of Trevir seems to be almost a part of the reaction. A revolution of the masses? The reconciliation of the individual with the community? National uprisings against aristocratic elites? For liberal mainstream, this imagination differs small from the spectrum of Trumpism. The prophet of our time is not Marx with his never-finished three-volume Capital only Lennon with his three-minute naive adminine.
