Dylan the American Left, and What We Have Lost

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Am 15.10.2016 um 20:14 schrieb ish mailian:

> Since the mass media won’t tell you Dylan was in his youth a leftist
> or that some of his greatest work came out of a critique of our
> corporation-dominated, unequal, militaristic and racist society, it is
> important to underline it lest the celebration of his masterpieces
> become merely maudlin (and he would hate that outcome, too).

Yes. And this cold war chestnut is becoming more apropos by the minute:

I've learned to hate the Russians
All through my whole life
If another war comes
It's them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side






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