Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird - "Freedom Is A Verb" (official video)

[@ochir4361]

"I like it when the elephant plays the trumpet." - My 6-year-old son

[@embs5803]

he has good taste

[@icameherejusttocomment550]

@Nathan-DTS Ehh, maybe not. The left needs to strike first. If the fascists want to target teenagers, we'll target those younger than them.

[@icameherejusttocomment550]

@Nathan-DTS Why not earlier? I mean, the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution and 1848 are when modern politics really came about.

[@mirmalchik]

@Adam Zahavi i feel the concern of socializing kids coercively, but we already do that in a lot of places. We teach kids that they have to wear clothes and obey the rules and not take things that "don't belong to them" by telling them they're in trouble and giving them timeouts or denying them dinner or revoking their privileges until they agree not to transgress in those ways. Leaving out "some of us understand that we need to overthrow the ownership class as radically as monarchies were overthrown throughout most of the world, but in school they'll teach you everything is fine because schools teaching about these problems get in trouble" or whatever, feels like it's leaving out a huge component of the truth imo.

[@NukaLemonade]

I also like that part.

[@zekmax3001]

The song that becomes evermore relevant.

[@falpsdsqglthnsac]

It’s always been relevant, it’s just that people have only recently started realizing that.

[@alpacaofthemountain8760]

YOU COULD SAY THAT AGAIN

[@MrFairbanksak1]

I agree comrades. Liberty is a dialectical process, a becoming rather than a static reality.

[@fluffygirl1356]

What does dialectical mean?

[@gavinblonk]

@@fluffygirl1356 It's a philosophy first truly advocated by the German philosopher Hegel and was then used by Karl Marx as the basis for his analysis of history and the formulation of communist theory.

[@ThatCamel104]

@@fluffygirl1356 You've got the thesis - the starting point. In response is the antithesis, which challenges the thesis and comes into conflict with it. Out of this conflict is born the synthesis, which combines aspects of the thesis and the antithesis. The synthesis now becomes the new thesis, and the cycle continues.

[@seekingabsolution1907]

@@fluffygirl1356 a pattern of two things effecting each other, one acting to change the other and then vis versa. In Marxist terms the human mind emerges from the cumulative effect of the physical world, its parameters defined by its experience and then acting through the human body to change that physical world then reacting to that now changed world and so on and so forth. It's like Johnathan Joestar and Dio Brando in popular Japanese manga series Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, two things defined by their interactions with each other.

[@hansmuller4338]

@@seekingabsolution1907 an identity of opposites

[@MrHelterskalter]

No war but class war!

[@ADHDisYippeeeeeeeeee]

Cringe class-reductionist.

[@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944]

I am just waiting for socialist state to seize Gillette and rename it to Guillotine. BTW. Elons head is mine! I plan to burry it in a pile of shit.

[@ip6289]

🤣

[@davidferesmyssior6704]

damn i just realized that at 2:01 there is an image from my country( brazil) that says "fora temer" ( temer out), now we have bolsonaro, and he is way worst than temer. But the fight continues, cause freedom is a verb :)

[@rosac6544]

Amazing, just amazing. The struggle for freedom never ends!

[@medd_music]

Idk if this is relevant but I reminds me of a quote be Leon Trotsky “The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”

[@nickscurvy8635]

That is a really good quote. I'm not huge into trotsky but he had some really good quotes on stuff.

[@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944]

​@@nickscurvy8635Good quotes and some really silly ideas.

[@joaquinvideo2959]

@@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944 "Trotsky sent a silly letter. We shall neither print it, nor reply."-Lenin

[@thrillscience]

Just got the new album! Amazing! Thanks Daniel Kahn for keeping the Yiddish worker's movement alive!

[@armandgiurea7648]

Greetings from Romania! Thank you for your music! Love the anarchist message!

[@thatguy6919]

Are you sure you're not projecting your bias there, not all resistance is inherently anarchist, tell me when the anarchist revolution succeeds whats supposed to come after?

[@greekcommie621]

@@thatguy6919 well the singer is a libertarian socialist so...

[@IvanSN]

@@greekcommie621 He's a Marxist though

[@greekcommie621]

@@IvanSN really? I thought he was an anarchist.

[@IvanSN]

@@greekcommie621 The Butcher's Share video is filled with Capital quotes and it is referenced in the description

[@vmvrantanen]

This is just phenomenally clear-visioned accurate.

[@thomaskloos6409]

There are some individuals in the world, like Daniel Kahn, who manage to word the facets of the dystopian world we live in, just so well. Whether we are on the same side of the political spectrum, young or old, this pipeline or that one - we are all left with a radical liberty in a world of wolves. So regardless of our relation to each other, we live in an age that will see us shape our world anew. I wish you, and whomever around you the best of luck. World War 3 is going to get much bigger than this still. And God only knows what will happen.

[@Radleta]

Strength and Freedom in music. Not a common thing now-a-days days. Thank you.

[@mischlingbeerandcigarman]

Again Daniel Kahn has hit the intellectual nail on the head

[@ApoplecticDialectics]

This...this is great. I am unbelievably wound up right now.

[@westpapualiberation]

Revolutionary Army Fight for Freedom in their Ancestors land because of Colonialism. This movie and song absolutely correct to describe how the Freedom Fighters fought around the World.

[@Komotau4691]

That song is about concept of freedom and how you take it not about revolutionary anticolonialism. Its how people shout about freedom and everyone have another opinion. Some black people said to me that they want Kaisereich back to Tanzania so thats their version of freedom :D

[@koikarp3490]

you realise though that, colonialism is a good thing.

[@VirtueInEternity]

@@koikarp3490 it isn't

[@ulture]

@@koikarp3490 shut up, you're showing everyone how utterly ignorant you are of history

[@inkaf225]

@@koikarp3490 stfu fish

[@chriscw3487]

why can you only hit the "like" button only once ?

[@СергійВоцко]

I am from Ukraine. It's a song, really strong thing. But unfortunately, I can't translate all text.

[@NewsKnight]

the bourgeoisie@!=

[@_vallee_5190]

Fantastic.

[@wassermellonie]

I was at the live gig at the museum of art yesterday in basel. It was good, it was amazing. Now I have to listen to all their songs.

[@dmitrydmitrienko459]

Lyrics is super , music interesting ! Dan is a poet !!!

[@simonbanderob3647]

Brilliant! I'm counting the days till 17 November! And I think Daniel Kahn has an album of Bulat Okudzhava covers in the works as well? God, I love this man.

[@korkor-kor]

You are drunkard, no shit, you live here, this guy sings about you shit know Vania,,, sorry,,, shiii

[@user-nc9qt5dk9j]

Comrade Kahn, i don't know whether you are an Anarchist, but you've certainly made one of the best (and personally i think - the best) anarchist song in English. Every word of the lyrics is purely in keeping with our ideology, and its mood is much more like our songs than even the most radical revolutionary communist/Marxist/maoist/authoritarian socialist songs. This song is the only song i will ever stand up to, besides Hijos del Pueblo and Mother Anarchy. Screw all national anthems and flags. I'll hear this song in my mind when i fly the black flag at our great struggle for liberation.

[@catboynestormakhno2694]

I totally agree

[@SaengerSchlachten]

No Pasaran!

[@dmitrydmitrienko459]

Daniel , thank you for your poetry !!! Always we will be glad to see you in Moscow !!!!

[@mouwersor]

Very relevant message in these times.

[@niickkg]

another home run, cant wait to get the full album. Keep up the good work lads

[@kekililhu3829]

Eines der besten live Konzerte im Zakk!!! Bitte kommt wieder nach NRW!!!

[@oogabooga6346]

Well said, Daniel.

[@lostmybadger]

yes!!!! new painted bird!!!!

[@Mambosalome]

Just WOW!

[@MrBillybonkers]

Wonderful stuff! Come to Scotland please!

[@alpacaofthemountain8760]

Love this! More people need to realzie this

[@marinamolchanova6806]

Absolutely brilliant and very inspiring. Many thanks.

[@pillmuncher67]

This week: 100th anniversary of the German Revolution! Next year, 100th anniversary of the Bavarian Soviet Republic! No Gods, No Masters! Oans, zwoa, gsuffa!

[@Komotau4691]

Thats song is about how freedom of states doctrine is absurd and you wrote this... :D

[@beaverstever1083]

@@Komotau4691 this song is about freedom in general, not just from the state. Just listen to the song. There is a line in there about low pay and high rent. also, from what I've read, the Bavarian Soviet Republic was at least partially built by anarchists. so I assume, though it was very short-lived, It was a very free place. The word 'soviet' just means 'council', it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the USSR or authoritarianism. I don't know too much about the german revolution, but they were fighting against the rise of fascism at the time and it involved many libertarian communists such as rosa Luxembourg. And finally, "No Gods, No Masters" is literally an anarchist phrase. This comment has everything to do with liberty.

[@Komotau4691]

@@beaverstever1083 Hmm something organized and worshiped as absolute freedom transform in absurd thing. I have no doubt that some ideas of this republic were good and for people but its a still some dictate. Even Pol Pot had his vision of freedom. Song is about that freedom is mainly about feeling,its a verb...

[@beaverstever1083]

@@Komotau4691 I don't understand how you could compare the Bavarian Soviet Republic, which threw out the king and brought democracy to Bavaria through a system of local worker councils, to Pol Pot, a ruthless dictator who killed people for being happy. also, this republic only lasted about a month, so we can only judge it by its ideas. it did not have a chance to prove itself before it was destroyed by the German army less than a month after it was established. if it had the chance to develop there is no doubt that it would have become a massively free and democratic society.

[@fangsclaws]

I'm a HUGE fan!

[@halyavski]

It's completely awesome!!!! Great song!!! I'm waiting for upcoming album!!!!

[@JoachimKessel]

Brilliant, I just love your music and message!

[@Larry11215]

You are truly brilliant!

[@claireluna7164]

This is amazing 👏

[@MysticMuttering]

I loved tonight’s show, thanks for being awesome!

[@MrDorbel]

Wow. Timeless, brilliant writing. great video too.

[@ornatarter2877]

I love the song love it loooooovvvveee it

[@asson432]

Hah! Wonderfully conceived and created video -- seems I just heard it during this year's Singer in Warsaw performed live as the next big thing and now it's here. Keep doing Humanity's work all involved - if you would. Away with fear, hate, abuse and enthrallment, and dreamless, and let all the opposite advance.

[@nikarhgoatkeeper9166]

I'm really glad there are people who possess biological resistance to the new stupid order. just go ahead and do not lose hope. cheers !!!

[@stephaniemaltman5206]

Stunning.

[@benlorber2179]

Can't wait for the new album! I also love the image at 2:06 ;)

[@vonBuchen]

Awesome!

[@ayalakb]

Fabulous! bravoooooo

brilliant !

[@solitary-sun]

Americans in every comment section on KZbin "Ah yes this perfectly relates to the current circumstances here in the US"

[@goddesseris4561]

doesnt matter the year either ha ha ha ha hahahahahahahah :, (

[@Komotau4691]

Americans think that everything is about them,such arrogance :-)

[@happiegiraphie8148]

The problems of capitalism are not new, and have been about since it's inception. America is more capitalistic than most nations, and because of our plutocratic republic the only corrective legislation that gets past must offer profitable incentive. So naturally no really corrective measures are put into place until the public can't stand it anymore, and the plutocrats throw a few pennies to keep the masses happy. The problems then mutate and fester until our hedonism can't stand it anymore, and we have to be bought off again.

[@zeyode]

@@liamtempleman8251 Sounds like communist propaganda to me! Thought police, arrest this man!

[@DemoOfAHuman]

This song is literally referencing the United States multiple times: war, drones, gas, donald trump kissing putin, images of murder possibly references the videos and pictures of police killing unarmed citizens, Black lives matter shirt, and then the rest of the song can pertain to literally anyone else

[@deathtoimperialismfreedomt3788]

Nice, new song

[@Joel-vj9nq]

Your name reminds me of the Yugoslav partisan's saying during Nazi occupation, "Death to fascism, Freedom to the people."

[@deathtoimperialismfreedomt3788]

yeah, I just changed one word SF/SN

[@jagertm4270]

I swear he had 4,000 subs? Now he’s at 3,000

[@dmytrocks]

A perfect tune. I'm in tune.

[@reve_ta_stogne]

it's really authentic truth, I confirm.

[@strashimir]

"Есть у Революции начало, нет у Революции конца!"

[@iamlordstarbuilder5595]

That’s a great quote.

[@iosuaf3293]

Up the workers of the world! TaL!

[@nikolaa987]

Nice 🤝🏻

[@dotdotdotdot6560]

Awesome

[@우와-x3v]

2:07 yes

[@davidschneider1785]

YES YES YES

[@TheSpyder49]

happy september 2020 everyone.

[@votka32]

Спасибо from Russia!

[@coolsolder]

Wow, real music, listening to this after listening to some modern hip hop or rap is like night and day. Bravo indeed, extraordinary!

[@mirmalchik]

goddamn. jacob minter sent me here and i'm very glad he did

[@guzelaziz]

Free Deniz 😻

[@angelikasadlovski6970]

WHY???

[@korkor-kor]

Freedom is a verb in Warsaw, Lublin Krakow, Przemysl ghetto aaaaaaaaaaaaaaassaa

[@pablokaase4393]

amazingly free,,,an adjective

[@lisajohnston3652]

💝💝💝

[@adolfhitlerssingleballsack7682]

This is great

[@vborunmoscow]

"mean Your means will have to justify your ends?" I don't take this line as a praise to a deaf and blind self-rightness. I take this philosophy as "All ends well when your means have justified your ends, but you could not have been sure of it at the start. The big right thing you needed to do was not rooted in legal calculations, it was rooted in a feeling that the slavery is at your door"

[@icameherejusttocomment550]

The means justifying the ends is a phrase means that you must do the immediately good thing, at the risk of causing something bad later on. An example is the trolley problem, where you do not flick the switch as murder is wrong, even if your inaction leads to 4 more deaths than flicking the switch. In this context, it refers to people who do the immediately right thing, who follow the law because they consider it good, not thinking about the other consequences of their actions.

[@TexasFriedCriminal]

Attend to the mode. The means you have restrict your options and not all means can lead to all ends. But you need to act, because freedom is a verb, an action and an urge, something that you make, something that you take, so your means, whichever you have, that allow you act towards freedom, to freedom (as a verb) are the means that will have to justify your ends. You don't get the perfect final state but by your action, your freedoming, it is justified anyhow.

[@seekingabsolution1907]

Good song. Like it a lot. very Trotsky-esque. By which I mean it's got some of that idea of permanent revolution and I heard Trotsky liked that.

[@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944]

I think the song is about enternal struggle for freedom. You can't get absolute freedom, but you can get closer to it.

[@deitruslein9010]

Listening after the US has dubbed oil a "freedom molecule".😒 Shows how ignorant and absurd the nation and its justifications are.

[@orion2116]

@Ron Rale hell ya!

[@НикОп-ю4у]

Подписка однозначно

[@yiddishboy]

אויסגעצייכענט! ש'כויח!

[@asliuf]

godaammm

[@matthewhorrigan5848]

Solidarity to the students

[@ignore5737]

קול הקבוד

[@danielajzen4224]

wish you would translate it into yiddish and record it for all of us.

[@angelikasadlovski6970]

yes, daniel, : we are jewish - forever! Hashem, I thank you!

[@communistcat967]

I've been listening this for some days and idk if its just me forgetting to activate them but for me they just added them

[@authenticbaguette6673]

"What was taken by force, cannot be taken back with anything except force." President Hafiz Al-Assad, chairman of the Syrian socialist Ba'ath party at the time.

[@civility2644]

The Ba'ath party are closer to Nazis than socialists. When they were getting started in the 30s they were the first ones to translate a whole lot of Nazi propaganda to Arabic and wrote to Hitler begging him to liberate them from the French. When he responded "I don't give a shit. Arabs need to take care of their own problems" they still kept translating and distributing Nazi literature and they never wrote to Stalin. When they finally took power they started pogroms, wrote laws requiring Jews to identify themselves and forbidding them to sell their property, hold government positions and leave the country. They purged the communist party and (briefly) went as far as federating with other Arab states which make no pretense at being socialist (Egypt and Iraq) to help contain their influence and pursue their ethnonationalist goal of an united Arab nation. During the cold war they sheltered fleeing Nazis including Alois Brunner, architect of the holocaust who personally oversaw the concentration of 100,000 jews, and who they gave a government job. After the cold war, with Bashar's ascendancy they've stayed the course, publishing new editions of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, supporting neo-nazis organisations throughout europe and the US even hosting David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the KKK and Unite The Right organiser for a state visit, awarding him medals on national television and broadcasting a rally he did claiming that Syria and the Arab People's struggle against Israeli occupation and the US Nazis fight against (((globalist capital))) were the same struggle. They have a state controlled economy, but their state is not accountable to the Syrian people, and when they did redistribution of wealth it was far more along ethnic lines than class ones (traditional arab tribal leaders with the full support of the Ba'athist party were aided in becoming a new bourgeois class), they seem to be genuinely anti-imperialist, if only because they're on the wrong side of imperial exploitation and politically opposed to the US but they're also ideological Nazis, extremely violent anti-semites, ethnonationalists and anticommunists. What the US & NATO have done to Syria is unjustifiable & unforgivable but Hafiz and Assad are not and never have been socialists, they're closer to Nazis and especially on one of David's video's it's a falsehood that should not be spread.

[@fishsteakyelk341]

Did he actually do the last part?

[@wug6175]

14-7 14-13

[@enesbueak347]

özgürlük bir fiildir...

[@niklashagemann4314]

very Kaizers Orchestra like:)

[@aleksandraslisauskas2871]

@dkpaintedbird, how does asbestos smells like?

[@Ltuhkeeo]

?

[@aleksandraslisauskas2871]

@@Ltuhkeeo, they are using old east block gas masks. The problem is that these gas masks has air filters that contains asbestos. After so much time have passed these filters are not very safe to use...

[@tibbygaycat]

@@aleksandraslisauskas2871 oof they're sacrificing for art lol

[@comeanomalocaris8267]

It smells spikey

[@sHeaK777]

Am I the only one thinking about Ukraine when hearing this?

[@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944]

Ukraine standing with Israel, Israel refusing to give them Iron Dome technology and Israel cooperating with Russia while giving Palestinian land to Jewish and non-Jewish Russian settlers. Oh, the absurdity.

[@wdt5560]

не ожидала соловьёва увидеть на 0:50

[@FIRSTNAMELASTNAME-zt4kf]

I'm anarchist (anarco pasafist to be specific. Google it it's a thing trust me i was just as shocked as you by it.) but I agree with what the men in the gas masks are saying.

[@marys.8905]

Ahhhh a fellow anarchy-pacifist!!! Ahhh!!

[@HAARGLaga]

No government has ever granted rights to the marginalized without coercion, be it peaceful or not.

[@rainz-wu3sx]

I FUCKING LOVE DANIEL KHAN! ✡️✡️✡️✡️💪✡️🇮🇱⚡

[@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944]

I think you don't. Listen to Israel Nothing and 6 million Germans.

[@Komotau4691]

Video:Critize the feel of freedom. Comments:Long live (insert republic or ideology) :D

[@sokiel6663]

Thank you, I thought I was going crazy...

[@Komotau4691]

@@sokiel6663 If you feel crazy in mainstream that means you are right.

[@fenezervzerv5816]

1:00 "I'm not Putin" "Putin (is) up with it" or just "I'm not putin up with it" You guys are good or I'm juste crazy. eitherway its not crazy good but its funny, well I think so.

[@ornatarter2877]

not you!!!!!!!!!!!!! it's the stupid add that came before the song,.asking me to donate to Trump. Goddammit

[@tomaszrachwald4057]

Pounds in my head while Ukrainians fight for their freedom

[@anonymousindividual6958]

They wont be free till they throw off the yoke of both russia and NATO theyll always be pawns till the empires collapse

[@helenrowlett6804]

Free Palestine

[@vonBuchen]

Пиздец как охуенно!

[@annatchetchetkine3493]

[pedant voice] it is not a verb

[@the_Fisher_King]

Amen, Free Palestine (verb) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@rebeccafeline6337]

Free Palestine!!

[@oblivious7642]

Verb indeed😅

[@eugeniuspirantel1086]

But what you will say now, my dear? Is the noun 'fear' stronger than the verb 'freedom'? Yeah, it is. Sit in your homes, wear your muzzles, show your ausweises when it's ordered to.

[@comeanomalocaris8267]

What did you just say, is it even a language or random letters???

[@eugeniuspirantel1086]

@@comeanomalocaris8267 , if you have dyslexia or you are 'differently-abled', my friend, it's just your trouble, not mine.

[@comeanomalocaris8267]

I’m saying your comment doesn’t make sense, like grammatically

[@comeanomalocaris8267]

And also the word ausweises both doesn’t make sense in that context

[@comeanomalocaris8267]

In I’t definitely not spelled right