Always see it on T.V.

Or read in the magazines

Celebrities they want sympathy

All they do is piss and moan

Inside the Rolling Stone

Talkin' about how hard life can be

Here Good Charlotte comments on the hollow tears of the bourgeoisie as they complain about their "problems" as the proletariat are suffering.

I'd like to see them spend a week

Livin' life out on the street

I don't think they would survive

But they could spend a day or two

Walking in someone else's shoes

I think they'd stumble and they'd fall

They would fall (fall)

Here Good Charlotte sympathizes with the lumpen-proletariat and explains that the life of a homeless person is much more difficult than the life of the ultra-wealthy. They posit that the bourgeoisie, because of their pampered class status, are incapable of surviving as a lumpen-prole.

Lifestyles of the rich and the famous

They're always complainin'

Always complainin'

If money is such a problem

Well they got mansions

Think we should rob them

In these lyrics Good Charlotte encourages praxis by directly taking back from the bourgeoisie what is rightfully ours. The surplus value that was stolen will be re-appropriated by the proletariat.

Well did you know when you were famous you could kill your wife

And there's no such thing as 25 to life

As long as you've got the cash, to pay for Cochran

And did you know if you were caught and you were smokin' crack

McDonalds wouldn't even want to take you back

You could always just run for mayor of D.C.

Good Charlotte shows here how the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie applies the law differently to the mega-rich as opposed to the proletariat by citing two examples in recent memory (this was released in 2002). The first is the trial of O.J. Simpson, a direct reference to how the bourgeoisie class can simply buy the courts if things aren't going their way. The second is a reference to Marion Berry, a politician who got off relatively easy for smoking crack cocaine. Good Charlotte points out how the war on drugs is a policy that targets the proletariat and lets the bourgeoisie and their bought politicians live scot-free.

If money is such a problem

You got so many problems

Think I could solve them

Lifestyles of the rich and the famous

We'll take the clothes, cash, cars, and homes, just stop complainin'

In the final lyrics of the song Good Charlotte endorses a revolution against the rich and the famous. Good Charlotte directly calls for the liquidation of the bourgeoisie as a class, a necessary step in establishing a dictatorship of the proletariat.

In conclusion, this song is a socialist masterpiece and should be played alongside The Internationale.

  • leftofthat [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Antithesis: girls don't love boys girls love cars and money