Do you hear the People sing?

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[BobNative]

Do you hear the People sing?

[EasySt]

That song has been my phone’s ring tone since Trump was elected.
(The FIRST time!)

[BobNative]

Thank you for your comment.
I have loved the song since I first heard it on Broadway.
I thought the video was excellent.

[higgmeister]

Worship Communism all you want.   I'll not be a party of that propaganda play.

The enduring relevance of Victor Hugo

This from The "International Socialist Review:"

Eugene Debs, who was given the middle name Victor in honor of Hugo, read Les Misérables over and over throughout his life, both in French and English. The brutality of poverty—the theme of Hugo’s masterpiece—was something he never forgot. Louise Michel, the inspiring revolutionary female incendiary and leader of the Paris Commune, called herself Enjolras after the student leader of the revolution at the heart of Hugo’s novel. And 150 years later, in film and on stage, Les Misérables inspires audiences around the world to sing of revolution, barricades, and a better world.

[EasySt]

I don’t think it means, what you think it means.

Enjoy cancel culture much?

[slorunner]

DON’T FORGET THIS VERSION!!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWAgIVNzHKs

[EasySt]

Yup! THAT”S THE ONE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWAgIVNzHKs

[kvanbrunt2]

Don’t know it is one of the old books i haven’t read but i thot the theme was beware the evil of government. Poor guy pursued and rich guy pursued by the same evil government person. FBI. I wouldn’t let wiki or the socialist tell me what any books purpose it. They say the same about Dickens.

[higgmeister]

I don’t think it means, what you think it means.

Enjoy cancel culture much?

Actually, cancel culture has nothing to do with decrying a novel written 159 years ago.   I think you are the one who doesn't understand what it means.

Paris: 1843–1845. In 1843, Marx became co-editor of a new, radical leftist Parisian newspaper, the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher (German-French Annals), then being set up by the German activist Arnold Ruge to bring together German and French radicals. Therefore Marx and his wife moved to Paris in October 1843.

Marxism in Les Miserables: Victor Hugo's Critique of Parisian Societal Structures

Through these portrayals and his social critique of Parisian societal structures, Hugo presents many significant Marxist ideals in Les Miserables.

[EasySt]

The thread is about the song.
Not the book.
The song was NOT popularized 150 years ago.
It was most recently popularized at a Trump rally.

Which is what I REALLY suspect has your panties in a bunch.

You’re hearing the people sing, and you REALLY don’t like it, do you?

~Easy

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Beowulf9]

Ping

[Jane Long]

Worship Communism all you want. I’ll not be a party of that propaganda play.

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FTA.....

.....The brutality of poverty—the theme of Hugo’s masterpiece—was something he never forgot.....

How is exposing ^ THAT ^ propaganda for communism?

It certainly wasn’t glamorized, one bit.

[higgmeister]

I didn’t listen to the song.

[EasySt]

“ I didn’t listen to the song “
~~~~~~~
Why not? Because it’s playing at this rally?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWAgIVNzHKs

[higgmeister]

The brutality of poverty

When I was a kid on the farm in rural Georgia we ate mackerel fish patties quite a bit.   There is no brutality of poverty, only communist propaganda for the dumb masses.   Choose whatever belief you feel secure about.   Read the links above and then look for more to study on your own time.

[higgmeister]

Are you really that dense?

They glorify marching under the red banner of communism.

[EasySt]

That’s what Trump playing that song is all about?
Marching for Communism?

Now just who is being dense?

The song doesn’t mean what you desperately want us to think it means.
You want us to cancel it, because you fear its rallying call, I suspect.

So you work to morph it into something evil, and associate it with the very
thing we fight against while we use it as a rallying cry.

No, I’m not dense.
Are you dense? Determined to dump on Trump for using it?
Possessed? In the employ of dark forces?
You may be right to fear too many people singing together.

I don’t yield “Do you hear the people sing?” to communists any more
than I yield God’s gift of rainbows to be the exclusive property of sodomites.

~Easy

[higgmeister]

Determined to dump on Trump for using it?

I didn't say a word about President Trump.   I am certain he had no idea that some flunky that chose the music added a song from a Broadway Play that celebrated Marxist revolution.   I find it hard understand when the Communists themselves claim "Les Misérables" advances their cause you refuse to take them at their word.

[EasySt]

There are a great many things Communists say, that should not be taken as truth.