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Thread #115116 Message #2461174
Posted By: GUEST,Volgadon
09-Oct-08 - 12:44 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Anarchism and folk music
Subject: RE: Folklore: Anarchism and folk music
What about actual anarchist songs? Here is the anarchist anthem, published anonymously in Paris, 1908 and very popular, especially with the Makhnovites where it became practically a folk song.
Pretty dreadful, but authentic.
Let us sing a song beneath bolts of lightning,
Beneath explosions and bullets, beneath the flames,
Beneath the black banner of monumentous struggle,
Beneath the sound of trumpets!
Let us tear down, brothers, the palaces and idols,
Break the chains and bonds;
Enough of the of the submissive slavery-
We'll drown out the sorrow of the nation with blood!