Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird: "The Butcher's Share" (official video)

[@tccostello]

I Came for the klezmer. I stayed for the economics lesson.

[@gabehessenthaler6820]

Same

[@ДавідБорґ]

This and Freedom Is a Verb are what I listen to to lift my spirits and dance, it isnt over and may never be, but I will fight for a world that is free! Si se puede camarades!

[@TheCommunistGamerTV]

More music videos need to scroll quotes from 'Capital.'

[@northeastwisconsinsocialis2466]

I was just tapping my toies enjoying it til Das Kapital started scrolling by, Now Im dancing to some klezmer and my grandma would be proud.

[@thefrantasticmissfine]

וואָרקערס פון דער וועלט פאַרייניקן

[@guzelaziz]

What an aesthetic experience combined with proactive political commentary with bursts of moving poetry! What a pearl!

[@randomserb761]

Absolutely

[@cookingwithtool159]

I think that was quotes from Marx

[@Owlpunk]

@@cookingwithtool159 Yeah, it's direct quotes from Das Kapital.

[@ApoplecticDialectics]

This is truly one of the best songs I have *ever* heard.

[@brendanmccarthy1910]

I'm impressed that you guys decided to make a song out of Capital, but it worked out pretty good.

[@Owlpunk]

Pah, typical Leninist - doesn't even know his Marx! ;) The quotes are actually from Zur Kritik Der Politschen Ökonomie, not Das Kapital.

[@rembrandttip4861]

@@Owlpunk The subscript to Das Kapital is "Kritik der politischen Ökonomie" and it says they're from capital in the description. Call me crazy, but......

[@AodhMacAuliffe]

@@Owlpunk This form of bragging about how you are smarter than other socialists is just another form of sectarianism.

[@icameherejusttocomment550]

@@AodhMacAuliffe You say this like sectarianism is a bad thing. Leninists need us, but we don't need the Leninists. They put ethnic minorities, homosexuals and many other oppressed groups to death, and we're not taking that lying down!

[@henriquepacheco7473]

@@icameherejusttocomment550 Without a united left, the left loses.

[@michaelm8265]

What an absolute masterpiece.

[@CW-zs8hb]

The events in the last few weeks makes this increasingly clear.

[@Ashathefree8]

Yeah the past year is still showcasing on the whole

[@Monogrammaton]

@@Ashathefree8 And this one

[@albertflorian9491]

This is breathtakingly good. The music, the lyrics.

[@joeyj6808]

So glad I found y'all. Our time will come comrades; be impatient! Agitate, Organize, Strike!

[@danielkafka5676]

thanks joey j you are my spirit animal

[@anarchisttechsupport6644]

Agitate, Educate, Innoculate (against the bosses' threats), Organize, Unionize.

[@ДавідБорґ]

I have been called troublesome, pushy, aggressive, and with every sneer and jeer I organize even harder. Its a year on since I swore on my grandmothers grave I wouldnt sit by and let people die old broken and poor so long as I have breath in my lungs. Now our union is growing by the day and a massive 20,000 worker strike is on the horizon! Si se puede comrades!

[@melissanicholson1734]

Daniel Kahn you are a blessing. Thank you.

[@lightnightpod173]

yall ever notice how alot of comments are sometimes just incomprehensible? like this has nothing to do with the song or this comment section but just youtube in general, like they'll say shit like "AINT NOT PLANET X COMING CAUSE AINT NO SPACE AINT NO GLOBE EARTH" And think "yes this means something" its kinda like how you have monkeys in front of a keyboard and they type out Shakespeare eventually, except they dont and its just perpetually incomprehensible gibberish.

[@ДавідБорґ]

True! I always see this, and 50,000 replies that are like "what? Huh?" Or "HELL YEAH BROTHER JESUS TOLD ME TOO BROTHER 5 G GOBBIES ARE BREAKING INTO OUR POORS AND TAKING ADRENOCHROME KNOWLEDGE" like what? Is this reality? Are my political opponents A.I. generated schizo posts?

[@Derpbag707]

Bounced on my boys dick to this comment

[@gender_nihilism]

that particular quote about planet x is from the youtube channel "Internet Comment Etiquette" video, one of the conspiracy theory ones. the actual quote from the comment featured is "AINT NOT PLANET X COMIN CAUSE AINT NO SPACE CAUSE AINT NOT GLOBE EARTH", it's a longform reference to his channel. so is "bounced on my boy's dick to this for hours", random images of shirtless old men (obviously you won't see those in youtube comments), and a few others less common these days. it's actually a pretty good channel, he played a pretty big role in getting Alex Jones taken down by focusing on the insane racism of the infowars channel rather than the stuff that's easy to make fun of.

[@frederik7338]

how does this only have 70.000 views???

[@Trimtram94]

Fucking hell why do I find this song AFTER I read the entire Capital

[@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944]

Ouch

[@Monogrammaton]

reading's for scrubs posting is where it's at

[@goktugsel7257]

It is the best video clip and music combined I have ever seen.

[@nawr494]

"Production creates the consumer" an example off the top of my head would be women's shaving products. They made the products, convinced the target consumers they needed them and then sat back and profited.

[@MrChillerNo1]

I dont know if that's the best example, since hear removal is a cultural aspect of many cultures since Sumer. I would have gone with luxury items, cars, bottled water, and labels etc.

[@globohomoenjoyer69]

@@MrChillerNo1 exactly

[@lucaswoods1725]

A better example may be the various commercials used to convince people of the romantic nature of diamonds. Hence diamond wedding bands

[@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944]

@@lucaswoods1725 We all remember those funny the articles about millenials not buying diamonds. Bourgeoisie news are really something else.

[@cookingwithtool159]

@@MrChillerNo1it’s the fact that they used pre existing demographics (women) to create a new category of a prexisting product, which they could charge more for and market more effectively towards, and profit, despite there not being a material difference between men and women’s razors in terms of function

[@pongoidlibrarian2484]

Marxism: The Musical!

[@orion2116]

or: My Aesthetic

[@AlexGoldhill]

Our aesthetic

[@aburaiqun6742]

No

[@cononut6380]

@@aburaiqun6742I mean, the quotes scrolling by the screen are from das kapital though

[@aburaiqun6742]

i was replying to the silly marxism the musical comment@@cononut6380

[@Mae-hx2ml]

I am about to start streaming a queer friendly, anarchist themed dungeons and dragons campaign on twitch that is largely inspired by y'all's work. I would love to include your music in certain key moments if you would be fine with that. Thank you for your wonderful work! I am trying to learn some Yiddish too lol. I know some German so the change isn't too hard.

[@Mae-hx2ml]

My goal with the project is to create a fund raising platform from twitch donations that I can then funnel into mutual aid like food banks. I will then use those write offs to create more donations than income, brining my taxable income to zero so I can assure myself that none of my labor is used to create war.

[@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944]

@@Mae-hx2mlI hope you will succeed comrade.

[@Mae-hx2ml]

@@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944 thank you! Second session is tonight. Im recording levels 1-5 as a prequel season of sorts that will be released when we go live on twitch st level 5. That way, people can binge. Binging will hopefully allow people to get super connected super fast cause there will hopefully be like 20+ hours of content already

[@Mae-hx2ml]

@KineticShotgun the streaming is still waiting to happen but I do run multiple sessions of the campaign for free for trans people as a form of escapism.

[@ДавідБорґ]

@@Mae-hx2ml based

[@pacob4728]

I love what you've got here! I've been working my way through your playlist and I'm really, really enjoying it. I agree with other comments, this would make a great musical. Thank you for sharing with us.

[@joshuaford8315]

I remember hearing you play this song live -- so glad it's recorded now. On my way to purchase and encourage others to do so.

[@frankteng]

Love this band, found them at the perfect time cause I was working on a paper on the crisis in Jerusalem.

[@Randko23]

Brilliant! Keep up the good fight.

[@karlmarx7511]

I always intended for my books to become a musical. Thank you

[@henable9415]

Brilliant in every way! Congratulations!

[@fabiann-e1743]

Do you guys ever play in the UK? I need more lefty klezmer concerts in my life

[@silverkitty2503]

Would travel to the UK to see them!

[@Ellecram]

@@silverkitty2503 Same. I would travel anywhere to these these guys!

[@julianchristensen7350]

ellecram on there website they have a thing saying where theyre going to be playing. Theyre based in germany and play around hamburg iirc

[@TheSequentCalculus]

The new CD is very good. I'm looking forward to your concert in February.

[@AREZD1]

Same here. Awesome music cant wait for the concert!

[@jordanfields948]

Without getting into political philosophy, as so many others have done, please note that the title includes the word sher, not share. Sher is Yiddish for scissors, a type of traditional music/ dance.

[@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944]

Poster for album has Butchers share written on it. So what's your point?

[@axderwraith1486]

I believe it's called a "pun"

[@joannaszulc1496]

daniel is so handsome

[@nightwitchsara]

this is also like "Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism" the song

[@sarah-beruriahbooi9529]

Brilliant song

[@meinsword]

15th time listening through. Holy fuck is this good

[@wikkormallansohn3477]

Ikh libe deyn muzik! Grus fun Argentina!!

[@spurdo-benisbrigade3203]

Wikkor Mallansohn נישט אַ גוטער מאַמע לושן

[@anthprof]

@@spurdo-benisbrigade3203 I've seen (heard) worse. Wikkor gets points for trying.

[@olliolivine9770]

i think theres a saying like, nobody's seen more death than a fucking farmer or shepherd. Something like behind every barn is an abattoir. This song is kind of compelling in its own way.

[@Jelver1999]

Brilliant stuff! More...more...more...

[@sandrakreisler6682]

I'm such an fan!

[@PartiZan1992]

Please make longer Version of Shimke Khazer!

[@jonstein6868]

Brought tears to my eyes (in the best sense of the phrase). 😂

[@bigbadbboy126]

a tremendous video

[@studentofhistory1848]

amazing

[@vlmollard4277]

Really wonderful....enjoyed the musical addition to the theme track of my political birth. Thank you!

[@MrFairbanksak1]

Love it.

[@stevena.simmons3203]

I love this so much.

[@i.k4854]

This needs more Attention

[@thysmillan2067]

"Diana Lektik" I see what you did there EDIT: holy shit i didn't notice that happened for all of the names lol

[@soman5348]

i don't get it.

[@ValCherCh]

@@soman5348 Diana Lektik -> Dialectic.

[@Dani-vb1eh]

But what about F. E Tischler? I honestly haven’t a clue

[@thomaszinser8714]

@@Dani-vb1eh something about the fetishization of commodities.

[@robins7730]

And Matt E Realls = Materialism

[@quintongill9685]

25 capitalists disliked this

[@nickestone1]

Powerful and lyrical. Daniel Kahn has clearly read Capital v1 and understood it - at least the first 2 chapters on the commodity and exchange value. I am currently slowly reading v 1 and what a powerful analysis it is. Marx is so poorly understood and so hopelessly misrepresented

[@vonBuchen]

"Production creates the consumers". Oh...

[@dovbarleib3256]

Tis the other way around

[@dovbarleib3256]

Demand creates its own supply.

[@vonBuchen]

@@dovbarleib3256 Should be but it's often not the case.

[@YoelFievelBenAvram]

Sounds like supply side economics to me.

[@blixer8384]

@@dovbarleib3256 American agriculture consistently demonstrated that supply can create a demand. Do you know why Bacon is so popular in the United States? Because the Pork Industry waged a massive advertisement campaign to create a demand for what is essentially waste meat. Bacon Mania is a perfect example of how a supply creates demand just as often as demand creates supply. Listerine is another example. There was no demand for their floor cleaner so they rebranded it as mouth wash and invented halitosis in order to create a demand for their supply of floor cleaner rebranded as mouth wash.

[@alexandermartin-sv2up]

Is the “Sher “ in the title Yiddish for “share”?

[@ladylongsleeves3175]

I think it's a wordplay on Sher, wich is a type of Yiddish dance

[@kasparkado7303]

Yay for this super gross amount of meat, that finally gives me the feeling of Painted Bird the Book!

[@sock_dgram8594]

I don't think Frau Doctor Diana Lektik is a real person.

[@julianchristensen7350]

all the names are puns diana lektik ---> dialectic

[@teslashark]

Istanbul? It's Erdograd!

[@apostleofazathoth7696]

I thought that was Jerusalem

[@Streksti]

Wait i’m sorry, they just let you dance around the butchery without a hair- or beard-net?!

[@TomOkkaTom]

This is Berlin, right?

[@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944]

Yes.

[@beckettmurtaugh3170]

this is so fucking based i stg

[@person32627]

i just realised how the names are Matt E. Realis materialist

[@alinebaruchi1936]

You can create any necessity in a dead world. Ideology, revenge and love. Being numb, being dumb, being pretty... you name it. Even being strong and a killer. Being good, being bright... a nationality. You name it. A psychological identity? It can be provided.

[@daphneszeles28]

true Bund-ism

[@joannaszulc1496]

Stfu

[@Radleta]

Lucifer blessed you, this is excellent.

[@Radleta]

Ofcourse, it was more joke. 😁

[@joesiemer3937]

Neiv Gabay that’s what I call edgy

[@AREZD1]

another atheist-anarcho-communistic satanist and Baphomet worshipper here, approving this message. haha

[@klara0kor]

It´s always great to have somebody tell you what does and doesn´t have place in anarchy. So I proclaim: There´ll always be space for lucifer jokes in anarchy. :D Sue me.

[@joesiemer3937]

Neiv Gabay I don’t think you can honestly call Teddy a sellout. He was a capitalist, although a moderate one, but he definitely never sold out. In fact, he’s probably done more to fight big business than you ever will

[@ГалинаТолстова-ы3л]

Ну вы,блин,даёте...

[@ГалинаТолстова-ы3л]

Музыка хорошая, а текст-"с ума сойти"

[@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944]

Lyrics are simple anecdotes about immorality of capitalism.

[@sessizbiri896]

Türk müziğine benzemesi.d

[@Komnenit]

Even economical fallacy sounds sweet and awesome to the rhythm of good Klezmer

[@Ashathefree8]

Point our a economic fallacy please. As far as I can tell the luxury of the few is based on the suffering of the many.

[@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944]

@@Ashathefree8 It looks like he couldn't point it out.

[@thepopulationofkazakhstan1116]

Got an answer now? It's been a year

[@seekingabsolution1907]

Alternately I could try paying a little more and having a little less.

[@alinebaruchi1936]

🇮🇱🤘

[@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944]

Sorry, but whenever I see that flag I have to write: Free Palestine!

[@konstantinmuhin4813]

@@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944 sorry, but whenever I see this slogan, I have to add: when buying two or more palestines of equal or greater value))) Dude, you have no idea what are you talking about.

[@konstantinmuhin4813]

אחי, הם לא ממש אוהבים אותנו. הם יהודים, כן, אבל מעדיפים את הצד השני של הגדר.

[@darkdragon5520]

@@konstantinmuhin4813 Maybe he doesn’t like Israel because it’s an apartheid genocidal police state.

[@ДавідБорґ]

@@konstantinmuhin4813 jesus christ my brother, even the IDF and cops are against Netanyahu, your country has veen on a fascist trajectory for decades so reap your harvest and rebuild with solidarity in mind! Borders are just lines in the sand that tear us apart, abolish it and start a newer more mutually peaceful policy.

[@abilitiesrehab5071]

You wouldn't have an audience without capitalism. You think the government would fund your little operation?!? Corporatism and cronyism is the problem - only worsened by giving the "leaders" of government even MORE power.

[@charlietheron8947]

? Socialism doesn't always mean the government owns the means of production. It means the WORKERS owns the means of production. Also why wouldn't he have an audience without capitalism?

[@abilitiesrehab5071]

@@charlietheron8947 Because they'd need to be state approved to perform in public. Workers owning the means of production - yeah that always works out, doesn't it. I'm sure this time it'll be different, right?

[@charlietheron8947]

@@abilitiesrehab5071 ??? What??? Your statement is making less sense. First of all no, they wouldn't need goverenment approval to play that is just ridiculous. Secondly workers owning the means of production has worked. What about Yugoslavia which had workers self management? No government control there. And what about anarchist society's like the Zapatistas? There have been plenty of instances in the past where workers not the state have owned the means of production. You're statement "I'm sure it will be different" is so funny because real socialism has been tried and it worked.

[@abilitiesrehab5071]

@@charlietheron8947 and how are they doing now? oh! they don't exist!?!? sounds pretty stable. We're quickly reaching a point where we need government approval to go shopping - vax passport sound familiar? so, yes, they'd need government approval. fail, fail again. time to throw in the towel.

[@charlietheron8947]

@@abilitiesrehab5071 Even now many factories in Spain and the ex-yugoslavia are worker owned so yes it is stable. Also government permission to go shopping? Look I know that eastern block countries employed some authoritarian measures but seriously? Try to look at the opposite side before coming to a conclusion I would recommend watching hakim on KZbin. Thesis, antithesis and synthesis it's how we learn. You know I used to be very right wing before I started looking at the other side. Even now that I am a socialist, I sometimes look at rightwing opinion channels to gain a fuller understanding of the world.