unlikely...........................

     The GM sit-down strike of 1936-37 and the other forcible plant seizures of the time were examples of a phenomenon we described in Blood in the Streets as "the exploitation of the capitalists by the workers."  This was not the view that Pete Seeger set to music in his sad songs.  But unless you a planning a career as a folk singer in a blue-collar neighborhood the important thing is to focus on is not the popular interpretation, but the underlying reality.  Wherever you look in history there is generally a layer of rationalization and make-believe that disguises the true megapolitical foundations of any systematic extortion.  If you take the rationalizations at face value, you are unlikely to grasp what is really going on.

-James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering The Transition To The Information Age

Pete Seeger.........................Which Side Are You On?

 

Which side are you on, boys?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on, boys?
Which side are you on?

They say in Harlan County
There are no neutrals there
You'll either be a union man
Or a thug for J. H. Blair

Which side are you on, boys?
Which side are you on?
Tell me, which side are you on, boys?
Which side are you on?

My daddy was a miner
And I'm a miner's son
He'll be with you fellow workers
Until this battle's won

Tell me, which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Sing it, which side are you on?
Which side are you on?

Oh workers can you stand it?
Tell me how you can
Will you be a lousy scab
Or will you be a man?

Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Tell me, which side are you on?
Which side are you on?

Come all of you good workers
Good news to you I'll tell
Of how the good ol' union
Has come in here to dwell

Tell me, which side are you on, boys?
Which side are you on?
Tell me, which side are you on, boys?
Which side are you on?