Capitalism Lyrics

Lyric discussion by ctlizyrd 

Cover art for Capitalism lyrics by Oingo Boingo

You know, I saw the kid in this video and I thought, that's exactly the kind of guy who Elfman was describing in 'Capticalism': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM8OO5Vu1z4

Whether you are a socialist or not (or some masked fascist from Antifa), you just have to be honest and admit that Venezuela is a total failure as a country - but this guy couldn't even do that! Even if you consider the way Venezuela were blindsided by falling oil prices, you have to agree that 'repatriating' foreign investments was a REALLY bad idea, long term.

Sure, Chavez gave it all back to the people - but by destroying those external relationships, when oil can't even buy toilet paper, no one is willing to help them.

I agree that Elfman is more of a centrist - every interview I've seen with him suggests that - but I also know that this song zeroes in on the 'middle class Socialist brat' stereotype because it's true.

That's how it became a stereotype!

@ctlizyrd OK... So no YouTube links allowed, eh? Well... Just do a search for this, I'm sure it'll come up there:

"I Don't Wanna Be Mean To You!" Tucker Tries to Teach Socialist Student Activist

@ctlizyrd I've noticed that hyperlinks from the site tend to remove the semicolon : in the URL, that is the address the hyperlink goes to is "http//www.youtube" instead of "http"://www.youtube".

So if you click one of @ctlizyrd links you will need to insert : into the URL after http

I'll make a comment in the report issue forum for the site admin to correct this (if they can)