| Kemopetrol – Goodbye Lyrics | 14 years ago |
|
Great song about the role of social relations within a theory of historical materialism. In the first stanza and chorus, the burghers rise above their erstwhile equals, the proletariat, creating disparity of power relations sparked by technological improvements ("removed by laser"). The proletariat, while they are forced to labour under the new capitalist class, continue to see the equality of humanity as being more important than differences in wealth ("you can call me anything" because of the brotherhood of man and the newly created bourgeois democracy grants them equal rights on the surface, "now that we are even"). The end of the strife between the feudal classes ("it's oh so quiet") is only an interlude before the strife between the new classes, capitalist and proletariat, which will culminate in the socialist revolution in the future ("it'll be tomorrow if not today"). In the second stanza, after the revolution, the now classes society can finally enjoy technological post-scarcity and the illusion of equality in bourgeois society is replaced with genuine equality. The chorus is repeated as techology forces more change, unpredictable now, upon the world socialist state. |
|
| Kemopetrol – From an Aeroplane Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| A comparison between the illusion of upward social mobility within bourgeois society, and the static class system under feudalism. | |
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.