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Western Thirst

by Scary Hours

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The track satirizes Rudyard Kipling's 1899 ode to imperialism, "The White Man's Burden." (www.americanyawp.com/reader/19-american-empire/rudyard-kipling-the-white-mans-burden-1899/) From the Philippines to the Middle East, the Western media continually seizes every opportunity to bolster the neoliberal imperialist agenda by demonizing any country that uses its land, labor, capital, and resources for the benefit of its own people. As long as there are resources to exploit, the West will continue this cycle. Retaliation for sovereignty abroad panders to US superpatriots and conservatives, stifling union participation and worker solidarity here at home as well as inflicting violence and oppression upon the international community. We’ve seen this rhetoric most recently in response to the Cuban protests in the summer of 2021. John Steinheimer poignantly captures the spirit of exploitation through his brilliant cover art design. The music is influenced by modern hardcore bands like Glassjaw and Incendiary, as well as d-beat and punk like Discharge and F-Minus. The video was produced by Daily Grime Media and features a raging vocal performance by Struck backed by images and footage procured by Marxist educational collective Prolekult Films from their “History is Marching” series.

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We've hit the cycle again
The blacktop's starting to fade
The pussing sore you paved over's started showing its face
White collar greed turning whispered dreams into tropic screams
The duck-and-cover generation's swords are unsheathed
You serve to stigmatize the exodus
The trending buzzword of the day for Fox and Redstate to push
The phrases change, but the story's the same
Natural resource exploitation and a market to claim
Just call it manifest destiny
Round up the salesmen
Decorate them with uniforms and
Stand them up behind the puppet while we
Finance their war
Retaliation for sovereignty
Sugar cane or your life
Take up the white man's burden
Send forth the best ye breed
Our terror riddled with pride
Irrigate the land with imperial parasites
Just call it manifest destiny
Retaliation for sovereignty
So send forth the best ye breed
Introduce the half-devils to the infantry
The sun never sets on the western thirst

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released March 4, 2022

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