today is a “listening to <https://bluescholars.bandcamp.com/album/bayani-redux>” kind of day
not sure the marxists still have annotations up on Genius in 2024
this line used to be annotated “Geo believes in a dictatorship of the proletariat”
i thought it was pretty obvious but………
“perhaps the sacred ground desecrators are intolerant conservative white people” IT’S THE ENTIRE FUCKING SETTLER UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, NERD
PROTRACTED STRUGGLE IS LITERALLY A MAOIST REVOLUTIONARY PRINCIPLE
no they don’t know what “petty bourgeois” means either
THIS IS THE NAME OF A NOTABLE DOCUMENTARY COVERING THE EVENTS BEING DESCRIBED
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
@Lady also just an extremely extremely common protest chant (that apparently originated in those protests?)
@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
@Lady i thought you had to go back to like the long march ep for the maoist annotations
@alyssa i swear bayani used to have better ones than this
altho agreed, i think long march’s were always the best
@Lady wow the annotations on 50,000 deep are really fucking bad now
"Anarchist from the west coast came to the peaceful protest and broke out into a riot, breaking windows and stealing from stores" ??? did this person even listen to the song...
i promise in 2016 these genius pages were like a 101 class in marxism‐leninism‐maoism lmao