[lbo-talk] Islamist, Socialist Revolutions Don't Mix

Mike Ballard swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au
Thu Oct 4 15:11:37 PDT 2007


It's 'pie in the sky' to block with religious fundamentalists, theocrats and other religious authoritarians. If that's all you want, you'll get it. Very Zen, "Nothing is all I want."

Mike B)

THE PREACHER AND THE SLAVE by Joe Hill

Long haired preachers come out ev'ry night, Try to tell you what's wrong and what's right; But when asked, how 'bout something to eat, (Let us eat) They will answer with voices so sweet; (Oh so sweet) You will eat, (You will eat) Bye and bye, (Bye and bye) in that glorious land above the sky; (way up high) work and pray, (work and pray) live on hay, (Live on hay) you'll get pie in the sky when you die. (That's a lie)

And the starvation army they play, And they sing and they clap and they pray. Till they get all your coin on the drum, Then they'll tell you when you're on the bum:

-Chorus-

Holy Rollers and Jumpers come out, And they holler, they jump and they shout "Give your money to Jesus," they say, "He will cure all diseases today."

-Chorus-

If you fight hard for children and wife- Try to get something good in this life- You're a sinner and bad man, they tell, When you die you will sure go to hell.

-Chorus-

Workingmen of all countries unite, Side by side we for freedom will fight! When the world and its wealth we have gained, To the grafters we'll sing this refrain:

-Final Chorus-

You will eat, bye and bye, When you've learned how to cook and to fry. Chop some wood, 'twill do you good, And you'll eat in the sweet bye and bye.

http://www.kued.org/productions/joehill/voices/preacher_slave.html

Doug posted:

''Today communism has been thrown into the trash bin of history as it was predicted by Ayatollah Khomeini," Ghasemi told the conference and added that the only way to save the world was through the ??the religious, pro-justice movement??.

An indignant Aleida, however, started her own address "in the name of the people of Cuba". "We are a socialist nation," she asserted. She also said the people of Cuba were grateful to the Soviet Union and there had never been any discord between the two nations, as mentioned by Ghasemi. She advised him to "always refer to original sources instead of translations to find out about Che Guevara?s beliefs".

"My father never talked about God. He never met God. My father knew there was no absolute truth", Aleida said, responding to Ghasemi's speech. The coverage of her address by state-sponsored news agencies like ISNA was brief and excluded most of her contradictory remarks.

Macht kaputt, was euch kaputt macht! http://www.iww.org/culture/official/preamble.shtml

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