their previous album was titled “The Long March EP”

speaking of, The Long March EP is really good but an even higher bar of being committed to Maoism to get what the heck they’re talking about

could be, but i think we all have a different understanding of “lock down the campus” now

Cornerstone at least has a few of the Marxist annotations hanging around btw

🙇🏻‍♀️ https://genius.com/MaoistAnnotations

@alyssa that is my understanding, but i couldn’t find a source for it

@Lady confusing that the annotator seems to have missed that Geo is exhorting the listeners to lock down the campus.

@alyssa i understand the confusion; it’s always been unclear to me whether Geo is saying revolutionaries should lock down (occupy) the campus, or whether he is referencing conservative attempts to lock down (restrict/control) campuses to pre·empt revolutionaries—both of which we have seen historically and recently, usually at the same time

@Lady i feel like it's the former, based on the structure of the line: lock down the campus cause it's right to rebel; the attempts to suppress campus activism doesn't directly relate to that slogan. but if "lock down the campus" is a call to action for the students, then it is directly derived from it being right to rebel, and it well mirrors the slogan's use during the cultural revolution

@alyssa i agree with your interpretation, but i think it varies depending on how you read “right” (as in “correct”, or as in “an inalienable privilege”)

“revolutionaries, lock down the campus because it is correct to rebel” is the most straightforward (and probably true) reading

but “they are trying to lock down the campuses because we are asserting our innate right to rebellion” is another reading, which is how this commentor takes it, and i’ve also been confused by in the past

@Lady hm, fair

@Lady temping me to go give it a relisten but i will hold to my argentine focus for now