But not really. If you study what communist governments do (apart from the atrocities of the 20th Century, which cannot be forgiven, but then one must investigate what really happened). They are pragmatically about nationalizing food production and healthcare, building housing (commie blocks, LOL) and building factories to employ the population. Not that such policies don't cause other problems, they do.
But my point is there is a marked difference, for the average worker-pede, between being seen as a vital cog in the works and being looked after (the good part of communism), or a useless eater, because private individuals have efficiently limited the business to fire 20% of the staff, or automated the line to robots, or outsourced to a slave-labor country. (The bad part of capitalism) - leading to factory cities, like Detroit, falling into disrepair, just because foreign imports (outsourcing is so much more efficient, they said).
My point is that economics and management have fallen into to silly ideology, and also - that no system is perfect, so we must be mindful, which is where Trade Unions traditionally occupied a space, until they were corrupted.
At this moment, communism is raising the standard of living for Russians and Chinese, even as we know there are still problems. Meanwhile, capitalism, or really crony-capitalism, is destroying the Western countries who have signed up to NATO - bigger problems for average people - like they now have to choose between keeping the heating on, or eating.
What is one to do?
The stuff Lennon was singing about was extreme ideology that was value-added to communism. i.e. Utopia. Honestly, as long as there is evil, it is never going to happen.
He treated his first wife very badly through psychological abuse, as he did his son Julian. Yoko stalked him until he gave into her, he was quite demented because of LSD so didn't see who she was.
That song Imagine is kind of creepy, though.
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try [no thanks]
No hell below us
Above us, only sky
Imagine all the people
Livin' for today [now why would they wanna do that? It's a short term strategy]
Ah
Imagine there's no countries [Oh great, no borders]
It isn't hard to do [I am sure]
Nothing to kill or die for [really? People kill for the cash in your purse]
And no religion, too [Now why would you want that?]
Imagine all the people
Livin' life in peace [Sure, sing it baby, we still need to stop evil]
You
You may say I'm a dreamer [ Ok, then]
But I'm not the only one [Yeah we know, it's called the WEF]
I hope someday you'll join us [I bet]
And the world will be as one [ ONE WORLD]
Imagine no possessions [ Reminds me of something, Oh you will own nothing]
I wonder if you can [Oh we can see it alright]
No need for greed or hunger [Nice sentiment]
A brotherhood of man [Sound kind of freemasonic, but OK]
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world [They already do, buddy, it's just that some pigs are more important than other animals]
You
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
commie shit.
But not really. If you study what communist governments do (apart from the atrocities of the 20th Century, which cannot be forgiven, but then one must investigate what really happened). They are pragmatically about nationalizing food production and healthcare, building housing (commie blocks, LOL) and building factories to employ the population. Not that such policies don't cause other problems, they do.
But my point is there is a marked difference, for the average worker-pede, between being seen as a vital cog in the works and being looked after (the good part of communism), or a useless eater, because private individuals have efficiently limited the business to fire 20% of the staff, or automated the line to robots, or outsourced to a slave-labor country. (The bad part of capitalism) - leading to factory cities, like Detroit, falling into disrepair, just because foreign imports (outsourcing is so much more efficient, they said).
My point is that economics and management have fallen into to silly ideology, and also - that no system is perfect, so we must be mindful, which is where Trade Unions traditionally occupied a space, until they were corrupted.
At this moment, communism is raising the standard of living for Russians and Chinese, even as we know there are still problems. Meanwhile, capitalism, or really crony-capitalism, is destroying the Western countries who have signed up to NATO - bigger problems for average people - like they now have to choose between keeping the heating on, or eating.
What is one to do?
The stuff Lennon was singing about was extreme ideology that was value-added to communism. i.e. Utopia. Honestly, as long as there is evil, it is never going to happen.
Everyones favourite hippy drippy secular sloganeering anthem.
He treated his first wife very badly through psychological abuse, as he did his son Julian. Yoko stalked him until he gave into her, he was quite demented because of LSD so didn't see who she was.
Source: Hunter Davies, The Beatles.