Do you think John Lennon's song Imagine is communist?
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in a way yes, in the sense that it says theres no religion, no heaven, so join us (perhaps in commusnism), i agree on you with that, but i think is a song that was written to make us this think about what the world could be like. Thank you for that insight though, i never thought about the song in that way!
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Ha. The "commies" are truly viewed as ev-il and injust, only because of Stalin and the other soviets who mucked up Marx's ideals! \n\nThe ignorance surrounding communism is outrageous.  People will never know that communism was supposed to benefit the whole and that the "Proletariat" was the group that misinterpreted and ruined it.  Also, they don't know that Marx had ideas for an INDUSTRIAL country to adopt his theories not an AGREGARIAN country like China. \n\nIgnorance is the key here. If people under 18 don't go to college, don't read Marx and have parents that grew up in the 50's and 60's the answer is YES. There is an anticommie sentiment prevelant here.
654488
I think that the song may be something like Never My Love\nIt's an oldie. Sort of like a dreamer song
1063221
Rory Emerald had a good relationship with John Lennon, and he, along with Paul Simon often got together in New York City.  Emerald only met Paul McCartney recently, at a dinner party.  It is a little known fact that the song “the Long and Winding Road” was originally entitled the “long and Winding toad”, but the Beatle’s manager, George Martin insisted on the change, thinking it made no sense.    \n\nJohn Lennon was fascinated by Emerald’s song writing prowess.  In his autobiography “Imagine Lucy in the sky with Diamonds in strawberry field, forever” he reminisced about Rory Emerald:\n\n“That little bugger, he could write songs, couldn’t he?  One time we (Paul Simon and Rory Emerald) were sitting in the Astoria…this was around…oh…’66, and all of a sudden….the bugger he starts humming this song…and I go wow….it later turned out to be “Feeling Groovy”..bloody marvelous….Another time…I was just strumming my guitar, no words, just a small tune…and Em, he just goes….you say you want a revolution…wow, I couldn’t believe it…I hate to admit I used it….I just couldn’t believe his vision…his talent…Em…he helped me a lot of times when I was stuck….One time I had this song…Come together…I was bleedin’ stuck as to where to take it…I called up the bugger, in the middle of the night…and he came up with…one and one and one is three…got to be good lookin’ cause he’s so hard to see...It just fit beautifully in the song….and Paul Simon…heh, I knew those two were an item <laughs> but, who could blame Paul?  Em had this gift for song-writing and Simon…agh, he just didn’t ‘av it, did he?”\n\nRory Emerald, Paul Simon, John Lennon, and occasionally Elton John were often together, writing songs, discussing words and melodies, and of the four, Emerald probably was acknowledged as the best songwriter.  He had vision, and often suggested important arrangements and music to the other three lesser talents.  It was Emerald that envisioned “a day in the life”, and bridged McCartney and Lennon’s seemingly dissimilar lyrics into the 1967 masterpiece.  \n\nFurther from Lennon’s autobiography:\n\n“We were making Sgt. Pepper and were lost with the words on one bit.  I called up Em, he listened to the words, and created a lovely tune, then suggested a rising crescendo as a bridge between the words, like being stoned…freaking marvelous….You know…we wrote a song “Get Back” in honor of Em and his luv, Harv Lembeck.  He loved it when he heard it”  \n\nAfter Lennon left the Beatles, his relationship with Emerald became more strained, as Emerald started getting more into television and movies, drifting away from his song writing talents.
332013
Your description of Communism shows a lack of understanding of what Communism is and how it works. I suggest that before you start painting Jesus as a communist you first gain an accurate understanding of what Communism is.
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While it is not impossible it does certainly seem to be improbable.  Thoughout recorded history there have only been 7 years of total world peace and that has been a day here and a day there to add up to the 7 years.  Religous differences, racial differences, as well as disagreements on type of government will always stand in our way.  John Lennon tried to lay out his plan for World Peace in his song "Imagine", it would take all of that and then some to bring it to a reality.
722023
nearly a beatles song?????
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First to clarify Marx invented communism as an operationally defined philosophical ideology.\nWhile I cannot tell you who the first communist was it wasn't Jesus. The Essenes (a sect of Judaism) were in existence before Jesus. They lived a communal life in the wilderness of Israel. SOme scholars have suggested that John the Baptist was an Essene. Regardless John seems to have lived in a communist settlement in the desert when Jesus came to be baptized by him. Thus, John is an earlier communist than Jesus.
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But it DOES have a moral! The moral is that Communism does not work. Communism seems like a great idea at first, but eventually natural heirarchies evolve and the government becomes autocratic.\n\nIn Animal Farm the pigs incite a revolution against the tyrannical Farmer Jones, but by the end of the book they themselves have become the tyrants - indistinguishable from humans.\n\nMost of the characters in the book represent real individuals or organisations from the Communist Revolution in Russia. \n\nFarmer Jones is Tsar Nicholas, Old Major is Marx, Snowball is Trotsky, Napoleon is Lenin or Stalin, Squealer presents the propanda machine, the horses are the people (Boxer representing the working class Proletariats and Molly representing the aristocratic Bourgoise), the raven represents the church, the dogs represent the Red Army, and so on.
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Me! Shall we establish one? ... Pity that John Lennon can't help us any more but we can get inspired by his "Imagine". ... You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one...
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"Imagine there's no borders" John Lennon.\nYes that would be an ideal world.
220119
yes.\n\n  All of history is full of bad examples of communism that were misrepresented totalitarianism in disguise. But pure unpolitisized communism is a quest for a utopic society where no one person is any better than the next, and everyone shares the wealth of the community as well as their fair share of the work that supports it. That is the true reason for The west's aversion to the idea of socialism and communism. We here are a pyramid society that takes from the bottom to support the top 10% of the population's interests and agendas. AAnd more times than not those agendas are to keep the pyramid stacked in their favor at the expence of the bottom 90% of the population. That is what is at the heart of modern capitalism. Before capitalism there were other ways to rule over the masses, such as slavery, indentured servitude, religious superstision....but the basic pyramid was the same and has been passed down to modern times because 90% of the people are asleep at the wheel for their entire lives.
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Imagine by john lennon... last song played at WABC, 1982\n\nhehehe best answer? lols
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well,\nLove is great song, and use some of the elements of the Beatles song "all you need is love" \n\nIn that song they use word play to suggest that all is possible for example.\n\n"There's nothing you can do that can't be done. \nNothing you can sing that can't be sung.\n\nNothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game\n\nIt's easy."\n\nLennon style depends on wordplay to break down distinctions  between what love is in the physical and abstract.\n\n\n\nIn the Lennon song love, the same kind of word play is use to suggest that love is duplicity and reciprocal.\n\nthe lyrics suggest that love is dependent upon giving and receiving.\nto want and give.\nand finally accepting love.
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That was a strange song and a strange movie during the Beatles really strange, drug induced period.  I don't know if there is a real meaning.  If you can, rent the movie (it's a cartoon)  (a strange cartoon) and maybe that will help.  They called it a fantasy.  Yup.  Strange drug induced fantasy.
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A kid my husband grew up with is named John Lennon...In fact the day John Lennon(the beatle) was shot I came home and my room mate told me. The first thing I thought was...OMG! our friend John had been shot!
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I know for sure that Communism is alive and well.\n\nMany of my junior high teachers are STILL there!