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Margaret Killjoy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2364 total appearances

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Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

Just to keep going with all the weird family connections, my great-grandfather was a Tin Pan Alley songwriter. And yeah, he just wrote music that he didn't own the copyright to. He wrote the B-sides for more popular musicians like

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

Just to keep going with all the weird family connections, my great-grandfather was a Tin Pan Alley songwriter. And yeah, he just wrote music that he didn't own the copyright to. He wrote the B-sides for more popular musicians like

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

Yeah, I mean, the internationalist newspaper stuff was pretty... Yeah. Sometimes they were better at knowing what was going on around the world than like a modern leftist is today. But he's holding the party line. They got told very specifically. I mean, this is the problem with the commenter in the Communist International. Yes.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

Yeah, I mean, the internationalist newspaper stuff was pretty... Yeah. Sometimes they were better at knowing what was going on around the world than like a modern leftist is today. But he's holding the party line. They got told very specifically. I mean, this is the problem with the commenter in the Communist International. Yes.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

Yeah, I mean, the internationalist newspaper stuff was pretty... Yeah. Sometimes they were better at knowing what was going on around the world than like a modern leftist is today. But he's holding the party line. They got told very specifically. I mean, this is the problem with the commenter in the Communist International. Yes.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

Is that someone in the American Communist Party during this era is literally taking orders from Russia. Yeah. Yeah. And that's one of the parts that we don't want to talk about with the Red Scare, because the Red Scare was bad, right? Yeah. But when they're like, oh, these foreign agents acting under a foreign national... They were.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

Is that someone in the American Communist Party during this era is literally taking orders from Russia. Yeah. Yeah. And that's one of the parts that we don't want to talk about with the Red Scare, because the Red Scare was bad, right? Yeah. But when they're like, oh, these foreign agents acting under a foreign national... They were.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

Is that someone in the American Communist Party during this era is literally taking orders from Russia. Yeah. Yeah. And that's one of the parts that we don't want to talk about with the Red Scare, because the Red Scare was bad, right? Yeah. But when they're like, oh, these foreign agents acting under a foreign national... They were.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

It turns out not, yeah.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

It turns out not, yeah.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

It turns out not, yeah.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

The Communist Party was absolutely right about racial politics in the United States during this era. Yes, 100%. And they were one of the only non-black organizations. It was actually heavily black, but one of the only not majority black organizations that was right about this.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

The Communist Party was absolutely right about racial politics in the United States during this era. Yes, 100%. And they were one of the only non-black organizations. It was actually heavily black, but one of the only not majority black organizations that was right about this.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

The Communist Party was absolutely right about racial politics in the United States during this era. Yes, 100%. And they were one of the only non-black organizations. It was actually heavily black, but one of the only not majority black organizations that was right about this.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

But actually, that's still like even when we talk about the way that people have arcs, right? One of the things I've read a lot, I've read a lot about the UK communists at this era where a lot of the communists left the Communist Party once they realized that they were just being mouthpieces for Stalin, you know?

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

But actually, that's still like even when we talk about the way that people have arcs, right? One of the things I've read a lot, I've read a lot about the UK communists at this era where a lot of the communists left the Communist Party once they realized that they were just being mouthpieces for Stalin, you know?

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

But actually, that's still like even when we talk about the way that people have arcs, right? One of the things I've read a lot, I've read a lot about the UK communists at this era where a lot of the communists left the Communist Party once they realized that they were just being mouthpieces for Stalin, you know?

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

Strange bedfellows. Good piece of propaganda.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

Strange bedfellows. Good piece of propaganda.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

Strange bedfellows. Good piece of propaganda.