[R-G] Vox Populi

[solrde]

Just thought I'd share the lyrics to this song that I have been listening to
for awhile...I am not sure how many comrades have heard Sepultura- a "metal"
band from Brazil whose songs are critical of the authorities as well as
social injustices happening in Brazil at least--especially the social
injustices inflicted upon the aboriginals who live in the rainforests and
jungles of South America.

The song "Vox populi" [Latin = Voice of the People] makes me think alot
about what Marx had to say about the world [although they do not outright
say anything about Marx]  and how one can approach nature and society in a
scientific and curious way and being able to see that there is problems in
the world, understands that there must be solutions to these problems.  "No
social order ever perishes before all the productive forces for which there
is room in it have developed; and new higher relations of production never
appear before the material conditions of their existence have matured in the
womb of the old society itself.  Therefore mankind always sets itself only
such tasks as it can solve; since looking at the matter more closely, it
will always be found that the task itself arises only when the material
conditions for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of
formation." [Marx, from the preface of A Contribution to the Critique of
Political Economy]  In this sense, mankind sets out to solve problems with a
conscious mind and there is no problem that is 'impossible' to solve,
although this doesn't mean that all problems are easy to solve.

This song also reminds me of all the oppressed people and nations in the
world who do not have a voice-and this songs seems to be of the people just
waking up to social and revolutionary consciousness.

The song itself is from Sepultura's last album "NATION". The inside of this
cover has artwork from Shepard Fairey  http://www.obeygiant.com/ and various
quotes from various people such as the Dalai Lama, Albert Einstein, Mahatma
Gandhi and Madre Teresa of Calcutta.  I was especially pleased to see
Fairey's artowork of Lenin and Stalin, although I have no idea of Fairey's
political mindset-other than as an artist he sees politics as art and vice
versa and either uses it or exploits it. Sepultura seems to at least try to
rally the youth in trying to understand the world and from the way I see it,
one's role in the world.

Vox Populi

No Soul Over Body
No Body Without Soul
No Brain, No Information
No Vision, No Protection

No Church In Politics
No Profit In Religion
No Suffering Without Cost
All I Believe Is Freedom

No Minds Without Solutions
No Laws Without Our Vote
No Lies In Conversation
Handle Who You Provoked

Cannot Be - Cannot Feel
Cannot Think - Cannot See
Cannot Live In Dignity
Our Life, Our Way

We Are Tired Of Being Denied
We Are Sick Of Being Sick
We Are Feeding All Our Anger
We Are Tightening Up Our Fist

We Are Failing To Prevent
Our Fate From Disillusion
We Are Failing To Protect
Our Lives From Full Destruction

We Are Bowing All Our Heads
To Doubtful Leaderships
We Are Moving All Our Trust
To Judge What Is Unjust

Cannot Be - Cannot Feel
Cannot Think - Cannot See
Cannot Live In Dignity
Our Life, Our Way

Exploitation, Segregation
All Comes Crashing Down
Exploitation, Segregation
All That Is A Falling Nation

Cannot Be - Cannot Feel
Cannot Think - Cannot See
Cannot Live In Dignity
Our Life, Our Way



Joshua