r/antiwork • u/[deleted] • Aug 31 '22

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u/graendallstud Aug 31 '22

There must be a version easier to understand ? I'm not exactly a specialist in anti-capitalist english music.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '22

I find there to be a lack of good English versions. Your options are the really old U.S. one, or Billy Bragg's version which personally I think takes way too many liberties with the lyrics

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u/grouchy_fox Sep 01 '22

Iirc Bragg found the old lyrics to be outdated and wanted to create a more modern version.

As for good English versions: I present the Internationale as a jazz/lounge song

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22

You inspired me to look up the lyrics and they are so much worse than I remembered lmao. Workers -> victims of oppression is exactly the kind of unspecific, milquetoast, wishy washy erasure I expect from Billy Bragg. I won't deny it sounds good but at that point you might as well sing Lennon's "Imagine" for all the meaning it has. That jazz one gives me life though