"Lied der KPD/ML" - German Anti-Revisionist Song

"Lied der KPD/ML" (Song of the KPD/ML) was the anthem of the Communist Party of Germany/Marxists-Leninists (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands/Marxisten-Leninisten, KPD/ML), who were a militant anti-revisionist and hoxhaist group active in both East and West Germany from 1968 to 1986. The song itself uses the tune of "Красная Армия всех сильней" (The Red Army is the Strongest), also known as "Белая Армия, Чëрный Барон" (White Army, Black Baron), which is used in a number of socialist and worker's songs, such as "Arbeiter von Wien" and "Vi Bygger Landet."
Des schweren Tagwerks Schinderei,
Der stumpfen Hetze Einerlei,
Des Arbeitsmannes harte Knechtung,
Unterdrückung und Entrechtung.
Wer geht voran?
Wer trägt die Fahne?
Wer macht die düst're Nacht uns hell?
Das sind der Zukunft
Getreue Kämpfer,
Das ist die KPD/ML.
Von Hass das heiße Herz beseelt,
Von Arbeit hart der Arm gestählt,
Steht der Prolet und blickt nach vorn -
Dem Volke Lieb', dem Feinde Zorn.
Wer geht voran?
Wer trägt die Fahne?
Wer macht die düst're Nacht uns hell?
Das sind der Zukunft
Getreue Kämpfer,
Das ist die KPD/ML.
Macht Schluss mit Elend, Krieg und Not!
Schluss mit der Knechtschaft saurem Brot!
Der Zukunft Sonne leuchtet rot,
Der Sieg der Arbeit, Feindes Tod.
Wer geht voran?
Wer trägt die Fahne?
Wer macht die düst're Nacht uns hell?
Das sind der Zukunft
Getreue Kämpfer,
Das ist die KPD/ML.
Für uns hat nur noch eines Sinn:
Vorwärts! Zum Sozialismus hin!
Die Arbeit hat uns stark gemacht,
Zu siegen in der letzten Schlacht.
Wer geht voran?
Wer trägt die Fahne?
Wer macht die düst're Nacht uns hell?
Das sind der Zukunft
Getreue Kämpfer,
Das ist die KPD/ML.
Zum Klassenkampf nun aufgewacht,
Nehmt das Gewehr, erkämpft die Macht,
Es führt uns auf dem Weg dabei
Die Kommunistische Partei!
Wer geht voran?
Wer trägt die Fahne?
Wer macht die düst're Nacht uns hell?
Das sind der Zukunft
Getreue Kämpfer,
Das ist die KPD/ML!

[@roedagardet]

I really love the lyrics on this version, they perfectly encapsulate what socialism means to me. KPD/ML music (and widely, anti-revisionist music as a whole) make me feel that way

[@grayemn1409]

I havent heard much anti revisionist music, even though the eastern bloc was plauged with revisionism ever since stalin died, where do you find these?

[@comradezhukov1938]

@@grayemn1409 in East Germany, I'd say Revisionism never took root. I would call our last leader, Erich Honecker, a Stalinist any day. He didn't submit to the Revisionism of the Soviet Union, ever.

[@grayemn1409]

@@comradezhukov1938 is that so? Well id be interested to learn more about east germany and if it geniuenly stayed true to marxist principles, do you have any books youd reccomend to me on the subject?

[@blau2034]

@@comradezhukov1938 The KPD/ML opposed the GDR leadership because they saw them as revisionists, criticised their dependence on the Soviet Union as well as them suppressing all critical voices. In one of their songs they even call the GDR leadership “Sozialfaschisten” (social-facists). en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Germany/Marxists-Leninists

[@theotter6279]

@@grayemn1409doubt that there are any because I’ve never heard anyone claim DDR was anti revisionist. Most anti revisionist parties were in the western countries such as KPD/ML from West Germany. Jonas Ceika recently made a Video about urban guerillas which often considered themselves anti revisionist

[@shinyaamagiri8956]

Organisier dich und kämpfe jetzt für eine Revolution zu unseren Lebzeiten!🚩🚩

[@Elias-cs3ol]

Ja Genosse! Die RKP wird die Arbeiterklasse zum Sieg führen ☭🚩

[@schadensbildofficial]

AUF ZUR RKP!

[@sagritarius01]

Hat man ja an der DDR gesehen😅

[@cubix015]

@@sagritarius01 die vorteile der ddr sehen wir wenigstens

[@professorrevan2324]

It is the melodie from Arbeiter von Wien btw

[@AnthemsOfEurope]

Also "the red army is the strongest"

[@derstoffausdemderjoghurtis]

@@AnthemsOfEurope fitting username ;)

[@ohaia23]

Arbeiter von wien melodie is based on red army is strongest btw

[@KarlHeinzBellmann]

Der "KOMMUNISMUS" IST NOCH LANGE NICHT TOT‼‼‼‼‼‼‼GOTT SEI DANK ‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼

[@TennoofJapan-yw7dn]

Es gibt keinen Gott, wir haben es dem Menschen zu verdanken

[@lucalp8347]

@@KarlHeinzBellmann Kommunismus funktioniert vielleicht in einem Dorf von 200 bis 300 Einwohner aber in einem Land mit mehreren Millionen von Menschen ist das einfach nicht umsetzbar.

[@jastın_75]

o7

[@DDF7299]

Lol Самое противоречивый комментарий )) Бог и коммунизм))

[@Mr_Spacepelmen]

*Thanks Marx, Engels and Lenin!

[@benhammer87]

🚩 Time to fight!

[@cominternsh]

Thank you very much! Long live the KPD of Ernst Thälmann, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht ! Long live the KPD/ML of comrade Ernst Aust ! Long live the German section of the Comintern (SH) ! Long live the socialist revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat in Germany ! Long live socialist Germany in a socialist world ! Long live the socialist world revolution ! Long live the dictatorship of the world proletariat ! Long live world socialism and world communism ! Long live the 5 classics of Marxism-Leninism Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Enver Hoxha !

[@Redstarka22]

I have bad news, all of these are dead, Marxism-Leninism is dead, and burying yourself in the past won't bring about socialism. Forget Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Hoxha, they are useless, they can say nothing about the material conditions in the world today.

[@MaelPlaguecrow6942]

Dictatorships are bad, actually.

[@Justin-v9e4v]

@@MaelPlaguecrow6942 dictatorship of the proletariat means the working class dictates things

[@Justin-v9e4v]

@@otaviobicalho8459 yeah I agree

[@fkboyStalin]

how could he be a traitor? that man protected the USSR and won the war against the nazis and was a good leader, he attempted to retire 4 times and each time was denied, what more civil service could you want but working to your literal death and saving your country from a war even when you want to quit? that man embodied patriotic spirit and the heart of our revolution, there is a reason elders show respect and love, he ensured we could be safe from fascism, not just him surely, the brave soldiers are deserving of the same respect, you weren't even close to alive then, do not ever act as if you get to be the one true arbiter of what the past was, you will often end up embarrassing yourself doing so, do you even know who Enver Hoxha was? a lot of people criticized him for the same reasons as Stalin but I'm sure you're uneducated enough that you were willing to hate Stalin yet say nothing of the other person who was akin to him in action, shows how your distaste for the man is only aesthetic, he worked himself literally to death while wanting to retire to kill the fascist threat and ensure a future for socialism all for you a loser in 2023 to say he was a traitor to our revolution, how fucking sad.@@otaviobicalho8459

[@Speznas7rus]

Dude nice video. Hope your channel gets bigger

[@msmcmeister1103]

nice greetings from Germany

[@NKVD.Officer]

isnt there a soviet version of this?

[@roedagardet]

Yes, the original is “the Red Army is the Strongest”

[@NKVD.Officer]

@@roedagardet thank you

[@MarkusMessel-sh2kz]

Bei uns ist fast jeder Unternehmer oder Bauer.. Ich nicht: Prolet.

[@projectpitchfork860]

This is to the melody of "Die Arbeiter von Wien“

[@Shqidemi]

Yeah but they all took the Melodie from the soviet Song: Red army is the strongest

[@TimothyYoung-h1u]

Grover Divide

[@ReyesClaman-y7m]

Hermiston Courts

[@Barakon08]

warum ballern diese deutschen sozialistischen adaptionen immer so

[@TennoofJapan-yw7dn]

Tbh, die Musik in der Version lässt echt zu Wünschen übrig

[@MacDonaldKent-w2d]

Green Freeway

[@victorabadias9167]

What the heck is anti-revisionism?

[@roedagardet]

www.marxists.org/history/erol/

[@roedagardet]

www.marxists.org/history/erol/what.htm

[@GeneralissimusStalin17]

Generally Marxist-Leninist ideologies that are against other self-proclaimed "Marxist" ideologies that really serve capital.

[@smtandearthboundsuck8400]

Anti-anyone that came after Lenin

[@kenndyjohn1148]

Schade, dass dies später eine trotzkistische Partei war

[@dg4219]

Based, dass dies später eine trotzkistische Partei war

[@antirevisionistaction1969]

I HAVE THE SAME PFP ON TIKTOK

[@elliotgirl3921]

They stole the music from the Soviet song "The Red Army is Strongest"! The thieves!

[@fidgeysrii4888]

It's our melody

[@RandidTheBandit]

It’s a folk song dawg

[@AnthemsOfEurope]

Bruh, folk/military songs usually exist in other languages as well "Arbeiter von Wien" also uses this melody

[@aka_056]

Pov: You've never worked in your life

[@barrett206]

yeah the guy who owns the channel is a commie but this is still a banger

[@bennybennerson7728]

I’ve worked near full-time since I was 16 while trying to get an education and deal with insane housing prices. Most of us work harder than you’re boot-licking ass will ever.

[@redacted7060]

Pov: you compared communism with American liberalism

[@fudotoku8179]

Communism is about working for the common good. It's like blaming slaves for laziness if they want freedom.

[@barrett206]

@@fudotoku8179 communism is about taking peoples wealth that you haven't earned

[@omni4163]

Bei heutigen Linken ebenfalls Nazis^^

[@MelindaSordinoIsLiterallyMe]

Es gibt dafür ein anderes Wort: Tankies

[@ねことき]

Левые и нацисты это несовместимые вещи так что если тот кто называет себя левым исповедует нацистские идеи то это не левый, а ультраправый

[@omni4163]

@@ねことき Das ist ja nicht der Punkt, nach früheren Maßstäben hättest du wahrscheinlich Recht, aber Rechts und Links existieren so heute nicht mehr. Glaube du hast mich falsch verstanden, ich meinte, dass diese Alt-Kommunisten für Heutige Linke in Deutschland ähnlich bewertet werden wie richtige Nazis. Für Neu-Linke in Deutschland sind grob 70% aller Menschen in Deutschland Nazis. Wir könnten jetzt auch Zitate der NSDAP bringen wo sie davon sprachen, dass sie eigentlich eine Linke Partei sind, sie das Bürgertum (was damals Rechts geprägt war) zutiefst verachten und Hitler selbst in einer Rede meinte das Nationalismus und Sozialismus das gleiche ist und so auch seine Partei gesehen hat. Das Problem in der heutigen Zeit ist, dass die Neu-Linken noch die Deutungshoheit über den Begriff Nazi haben, die Alt-Kommunisten waren doch recht Heimatverbunden und hatten einen gewissen Nationalstolz trotz einem Internationalistischen Weltbild und das würde für heutige Neu-Linke schon reichen um als Nazi abgestempelt zu werden, wie gesagt für heutige Linke sind 70% oder mehr in Deutschland Nazis, Nazi in Deutschland ist inzwischen jeder, der Neu-Linken in irgendeinem Punkt widerspricht.

[@SatchelChannel]

@@MelindaSordinoIsLiterallyMe Lol, authority doesn't define a political current, tankies are still socialists because they reject capitalism. Nazis were capitalists

[@mr_Demonuga]

Пишу комментарий в поддержку канала

[@fidgeysrii4888]

Now I feel responsible to comment as well. International Solidarity 🚩❤️

[@shoku_enver]

The KPD/ML was the only vanguard of the working class in Germany in those years. The history of its existence was filled with a constant struggle on several fronts: the struggle against capitalism in Germany, the struggle against external Khrushchev-Brezhnev revisionism and the struggle against internal opportunism. Now the only heir to the KPD/ML is the Comintern (SH). Long live Comrade Ernst Aust and the KPD/ML!

[@456t23]

Bruh

[@asdsfgjaswdfgsdfa]

I have infinite love for this

[@AshutoshRoberson-w8o]

Joshua Rest

[@AlysaBrabant-f1k]

Ellie Fields

[@AbramAndersson-n5b]

Gulgowski Ridges

[@KristynDowgiallo-q9f]

Clemmie Courts

[@JoanHarry-c2u]

Funk Run

[@ArshRajpu5]

Turtle Man

[@CesarSchluneger-f6x]

Jesus Island

[@DarwinMones-j8d]

Quigley Turnpike

[@HodgeBerg-s2k]

Hank Groves

[@BackVera-w7g]

Jessy Roads

[@FaulknerParker-i7m]

Wintheiser Harbors

[@КрошИгнатович]

А как данная звезда называется

[@Hardie_Boi]

based but DKP is better

[@MelindaSordinoIsLiterallyMe]

The KPD/ML at least was an independent political force .... the DKP was, for most of its existence, a vasal of the SED controlled by the Central Committee's IPW Department.

[@sagritarius01]

​@@MelindaSordinoIsLiterallyMedas diese links radikalen Parteien nichts mehr zu sagen haben mit 0.3% ist gut so😅😅

[@heindaddel4619]

Auch böse Menschen haben Lieder.

[@fidgeysrii4888]

Auch dumme Menschen können Kommentare schreiben.

[@heindaddel4619]

@@fidgeysrii4888 Das haben Sie eindrucksvoll bewiesen.

[@qhayiya252]

German Communists were put into concentration camps even before the Jews, their political party was practically disbanded by Hitler and their lands taken from them much like the Jews. Communism isn't evil though, nothing in it forces evil as a part of the ideology. The only ideology that would fit the mild of evil is ultra nationalists (like so ultra nationalistic that you begin thinking you are a master race above your neighbours) The cold war is over bud, time to start looking at life through a more fair lens. The USSR did commit horrible acts but that was because of their leaders, not the ideology they used. Much like how the US built concentration camps for Japanese Americans on the west coast with horrid conditions despite the fact that they lived lives no different from your average American.

[@TheLeftPath]

schnauze Klassenverräter

[@VLKYRII]

This, with a slightly higher pitch and 15% faster, sounds so good. I was listening to that shit on repeat for an hour.