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Here’s an interesting article about the same musician: https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-07-21/why-woody-guthries-guitar-was-a-fascist-killer.html

Relevant paragraph:

Woody Guthrie’s guitar didn’t kill fascists because it fired bullets. It killed by neutralizing the fascists. Music, like culture, has the power to defeat right-wing extremists and their antidemocratic ideas rooted in xenophobia, racism, homophobia and sexism. Guthrie fought using ideas, language, music and the shared desire to build a better future together.

  • cabbageEnglish
    45•9 days ago

    Not to forget the verse about property rights:

    There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me
    Sign was painted, saying “private property”
    But on the back side it didn’t say nothing
    That side was made for you and me

    • @[email protected]English
      1•9 days ago

      So… he climbed the wall, checked the other side, and decided that the inside area was “for you and me” because the inside of the wall didn’t say otherwise?

      • cabbageEnglish
        3•8 days ago

        Yup.

        He did not believe in expensive private property rights.

        This land is your land.