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Here's an interesting article about the same musician: https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-07-21/why-woody-guthries-guitar-was-a-fascist-killer.html

Relevant paragraph:

Woody Guthrieโ€™s guitar didnโ€™t kill fascists because it fired bullets. It killed by neutralizing the fascists. Music, like culture, has the power to defeat right-wing extremists and their antidemocratic ideas rooted in xenophobia, racism, homophobia and sexism. Guthrie fought using ideas, language, music and the shared desire to build a better future together.

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[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

People say it's against all private property but it only explicitly criticizes private ownership of land. That does not imply Communism, see Georgism.

...is what I would say if I didn't always twist the lyrics to praise the compact disc ๐Ÿ’ฟ

How I sing the song. Warning: Cringe
๐Ÿ’ฟ My pit and your land,
๐Ÿ’ฟ your pit and my land,
๐Ÿ’ฟ from err'r correction
๐Ÿ’ฟ to the sampling theorem
๐Ÿ’ฟ From the Red Book's premise
๐Ÿ’ฟ to the bitstream coders
๐Ÿ’ฟ CD was made by Sony and Philips.

๐Ÿ’ฟ My laser's gliding
๐Ÿ’ฟ on the spiral pathway,
๐Ÿ’ฟ my cradle keeps it
๐Ÿ’ฟ pointed the right way.
๐Ÿ’ฟ Plastic is never
๐Ÿ’ฟ made ideally
๐Ÿ’ฟ but wobbles are no problem for CD.

๐Ÿ’ฟ There may be dust bits
๐Ÿ’ฟ that try to fool me,
๐Ÿ’ฟ disks can be tainted,
๐Ÿ’ฟ varying light intensity
๐Ÿ’ฟ But the extra data
๐Ÿ’ฟ carry everything
๐Ÿ’ฟ I need to get the music error-free

๐Ÿ’ฟ Audiophiles
๐Ÿ’ฟ are total dickheads,
๐Ÿ’ฟ claiming they can hear
๐Ÿ’ฟ the "discrete DAC steps"
๐Ÿ’ฟ But Shannon proved that
๐Ÿ’ฟ a low-pass filter
๐Ÿ’ฟ Makes samples match the input perfectly

๐Ÿ’ฟ My pit and your land,
๐Ÿ’ฟ your pit and my land,
๐Ÿ’ฟ from err'r correction
๐Ÿ’ฟ to the sampling theorem
๐Ÿ’ฟ From the Red Book's promise
๐Ÿ’ฟ to the bitstream coders
๐Ÿ’ฟ This was made by Sony and Philips.

[-] cabbage@piefed.social 4 points 8 months ago

Scotland and Norway have the right to roam, where there are land owners but they do not have the right to keep you off their land. As far as I'm concerned that's the bare minimum for a decency, even though it's a long shot from communism.

But Guthrie was a communist. This was before Stalinism and a lot of the bad connotations given to communism since - I doubt he would have embraced much of what have happened in the name of communism. But he was a union man.

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