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"History will absolve me" by Fidel Castro Ruz El pueblo armado jamas sera aplastado! ________________________________ From: Nick Fredman <nick.fred...@optusnet.com.au> To: Mr. Goodman <godisamethod...@yahoo.com> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 6:33 PM Subject: Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds? ====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== Not fiction but maybe one for the history teachers, and parents, and maybe for a younger demographic, but I'm becoming quite a fan of the books and BBC version of Horrible Histories, along with our 8-year-old (and somewhat less appropriately, given how gory it is, our not quite 4-year-old), particularly the often hilarious songs in the TV version. Not particularly radical overall, apart from the need for potential Marxists to get a good sense of history, but there's a few slyly subversive lyrics, e.g. We're just listened to 'The four Georges': "Born to rule over you/Georges 4, 3, 1 and 2/You had to do what we told you to/Just because our blood was blue...People hated us, and we hated them too" etc. The most subversive songs are: Luddites http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgBiGrpWNQU William Wallace, Scottish rebel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g61xASD-24 Suffragette city http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VamBADwizd8 Boudicca http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LhT7rCC6O8 Not at all radical but hilarious are the ancient Celtic hip hop boast battle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXgtZbrcxBQ and the Viking soft rock anthem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qSkaAwKMD4 ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/godisamethodist%40yahoo.com ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
