Dylan the American Left, and What We Have Lost

[ish mailian]

There are, of course, millions of people, most of them young people,
who know almost nothing of Dylan's work but are hearing him for the
first time now that he has been awarded the Nobel. He was arrested
recently, in NJ, for vagrancy, but two young cops who took him for a
madman when he claimed to be Bob Dylan, songwriter and performer.

The early recordings, when Dylan lived in the Village with Suze are
important documents of the Left that flowered there then, and, as
Thomas suggests, are germane to the lives of all of us now as the MIC
puffs up a new cold war, and the PIC (Prison Industrial Complex)-see
Netflix film 13th, listen to Turn, Turn, Turn Again or Percy's Song
(http://bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/1112)
or Hurricane to understand how important Dylan might be to Black Lives
Matter for example.

On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 10:06 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> What idiot doesn't know Dylan was a major voice of the Left in the 60's?
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> On Saturday, October 15, 2016, Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
> wrote:
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>> Am 15.10.2016 um 20:14 schrieb ish mailian:
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>>> 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).
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>> Yes. And this cold war chestnut is becoming more apropos by the minute:
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>> 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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