Paul the Communist?

[Clark Kent]

What on earth was Macca on about with that line in AHDN on the train, "we're a community, up the workers and all that stuff". Was Paul a Communist? Just a thought.

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[Sgt.McCartney]

Maybe the writers were communist's

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-"King Of The Hill

[This Message Has Been Edited By Sgt.McCartney On August 24, 2002 06:15 PM]

[JDanRyan]

Somehow I doubt that. After all, of the four of them he had the most developed business entity around him to represent his interests after the band broke up.

To some extent, even in 1964 in the midst of the Kim Philby revelations, spouting Communist phrases was something of a joke, good for a cheep laugh. Besides, since they were in the midst of ticking off a staid old man with a bowler and vest, what better way to spook the Establishment than with tried and true slogans that spooked Gladstone?

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"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the War Room!" - Dr. Strangelove

[Sexy_Sadie]

I never took it to be a Communist statement, but a statement against the class system. The Beatles talked a lot about how in the 60's in England, there was such a division between the upper and lower class, between what was old (like the establishment) and what was new (rock, 'the swingin' sixties,' all that), and between the kids and their parents. I think that whole scene with the rude old man was to show how the younger, middle class people were treated by the older, richer class. Paul's line just summed up what the younger generation was feeling - that they had no rights. The same goes for Ringo saying, "I bet you're sorry you won" or whatever to the old man when he says "I fought the war for your sort". So no, I don't think it was meant to be a Communist remark.

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"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see..."

[beatlebangs1964]

I always thought Paul's line was a reflection of "we're a group, we work/function/perform as one and we'll defend one another." I never read "communism" into that line at all.

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Then we will remember things we said today. Yeah.
-- Beatles, 1964

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