Imagine all the Workers « Provoking the Muse

Imagine all the Workers

Posted by Denis E. Ambrose, Jr. on 3 May 2008

Thought this was pretty clever:

(And yes, I do like John Lennon; but that doesn’t change the fact that he was a pinko-commie.)

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Curtis Says:
5 May 2008 at 2:51 am
I’m sorry, but it’s not clever, it’s ignorant. “Imagine” has nothing to do with communism, and particularly nothing to do with the regimes of Mao, Lenin and the like.
Denis E. Ambrose, Jr. Says:
6 May 2008 at 3:30 am
I think if you listen to the song carefully, you’ll see that Lennon is asking us to “imagine” the worker’s paradise that results from the communist revolution. According to this Rolling Stone article, Lennon thought of “Imagine” as “virtually the Communist Manifesto, even though I am not particularly a communist and I do not belong to any movement….” So, there’s that.
Curtis Says:
9 May 2008 at 12:23 am
Maybe that’s my own bias feeding into the song, but it sounds like imagining a world without “isms” of any kind - including communism. It’s an impossible world, really, but it idealizes the possibilities of a world without artifice, no imaginary barriers to separate people from each other, and no selfishness. That’s what the song says to me. I think that’s what Lennon is meaning when he says that. On paper, the Communist Manifesto isn’t really all that bad, but in practice all our frailties easily corrupt so frail an ideal. Whomever made this video seems to be implying that “Imagine” welcomes the bad that comes with the good of the workers paradise, and I think that clearly isn’t true.