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Artist Barbara Dane
Release I Hate the Capitalist System
Year 1973
Label Paredon # P-1014
Format LP · Album
Country USA
Language English
Songs here 2 in the archive
Citation: Justin A. Brummer, Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) — Barbara Dane, I Hate the Capitalist System; cite each song by its SongID

I Hate the Capitalist System

1973 · Album · Paredon # P-1014 · USA
2 songs from this release are in the archive, listed below in catalogue order. Track positions are not recorded; the release may carry other songs that do not reference the war.
Annotation
The track "Kent State Massacre" (Paredon Records # P-1014) by Barbara Dane was an angry, and revolutionary, account of the Kent State University protest. It firstly set the scene and referenced the four students killed: "Allison Krause and Sandra Scheuer marched and sang a peaceful song, like Bill Schroeder and Jeffrey Miller" - one of the few Vietnam songs to mention the four by name. The lyrics then moved to the actual confrontation: "the air was filled with tear gas, the troops did advance" . Dane concluded that the four died for "those in Vietnam" and all the protesters. She vowed to keep the fight going, and called on people to organise in order to "sink this murdering system" .1
Artist background
Released on the label founded by Barbara Dane and Irwin Silber in 1969, whose objective was to "seek out the music and speech, documentary or dialogue, that spring from the conscious artist who relates to people's movements, and which pour from all people in struggle".1 This record label released several albums either about the Vietnam War or that contained a Vietnam War song, which are discussed on this list. See the note below. Also note that in 1969 Dane and Sliber published the book "The Vietnam Song Book" which included the notation and lyrics of one hundred anti-war songs collected from around the world.

Albums on Paredon Records which contained Vietnam War songs:

FTA!: Songs of the GI Resistance (1970) (# P-1003) by Dane, Cancion Protesta: Protest Songs of Latin America (1970) (# PAR01001) by various artists (VA), Cuba va! Songs of the New Generation of Revolutionary Cuba (1971) (# P-1010) by Grupo de Experimentación Sonora del ICAIC, Vietnam: Songs of Liberation (1971) (# PAR01008) by VA, Vietnam Will Win! Liberation Songs of the Vietnamese People (1971) (# PAR01009) by VA, We Say No to Your War! (1972) (# P-1015) by the Covered Wagon Musicians, I Hate the Capitalist System (1973) (# P-1014) by Dane, The Force of Life (1974) (# P-1023) by The Red Star Singers, Cuba: Songs for Our America (1975) (# P-1018) by Carlos Puebla, What Now, People? (1975) (# P-2001) by VA, The Legacy of Ho Chi Minh (1976) (# P-1033) by VA, What Now, People? Vol. 2 (1977) (# P-2002) by VA, Viva Puerto Rico Libre (1978) (# P-1035) by VA, What Now, People? Vol. 3 (1978) (# P-2003) by VA, Puerto Rico: Como el filo del machete (1978) (# P-1040) by Andrés Jiménez.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Collections
Songs from this release appear in these 3 curated collections.
The songs
1.
1973 · Album · Paredon # P-1014 · USA · I Hate the Capitalist System

Born 12 May 1927, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Died 20 October 2024, Oakland, California, USA

2.
1973 · Album · Paredon # P-1014 · USA · I Hate the Capitalist System

Paredon P-1014, "I Hate the Capitalist System" (© 1973), side 2 band 4, 2:50; words and music Xuan Hong, English words Barbara Dane, © 1968; Tim Scott (cello), Andy Pitt (guitar). An NLF song from the early 1960s; Dane sang it at the 1972 Tết celebration in Paris. Same song as VWSP2634 (Paredon P-1009). [From the record booklet]