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Thread #92141 Message #1766387
Posted By: Jim Dixon
22-Jun-06 - 07:07 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: We are the builders
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: We are the builders
From the Pioneers, we "graduated" to the Young Communist League (YCL) and then to the Communist Party. The Party led and controlled both youth organizations. In the Young Pioneers, we had lots of picnics and we sang songs. The first revolutionary song I ever learned went like this:
We are the builders; we build the future. The future world is in our hands. We swing our hammers, we use our weapons Against the foe in every land. And we, the workers, who are the builders, We fight; we do not fear to die.
--From "California Girlhood" by Lillian Carlson, one of the articles in the book "Red Diapers: Growing up in the Communist Left", edited by Judy Kaplan and Linn Shapiro, published by University of Illinois Press, 1998.