except Ringo Starr who was a management plant and opportunist put in to sabotage The Beatles from the inside. he supported Brexit and was prominently featured in the Pandora Papers.

fun fact: Back in the USSR only got recorded because at the time they managed to kick Ringo out for a short period of time

    • World_Wario_II [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I mean, listen to Imagine. The most idealist message possible, one day we could all just wake up and end oppression and exploitation if we all just thought about it.

      They leaned left, but they were definitely part of the new anti-communist left that included hippies and western academics and thrived on idealism

    • CetaceanPosadist
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      2 years ago

      as i recall paul actually apologized for the mao line later and said he regretted it

      that being said the song is still about the hippy idea (which the beatles at least somewhat subscribed to) that real revolution was bad and revolution should come from within your own mind instead