Soldier’s Internationalle
(tune, 1st half of ‘Oh Tannenbaum’)


The Working Class can kiss my ass,
I’ve got a soldier’s job at last.
I was out of work and on the dole,
So shove the Red Flag up your hole.


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Thursday 13 July 2006

       Ex BJ Price and his donated 51 BN FNQ Reg’t songbook, put together by Vietnam Vets, who learned most of the songs, including this one, from WWII vets.
    My research indicates that contrary to current academic theory, there is not ‘One Popular Society’ from which soldiers come, and after service return to; that the term ‘Working Class’ is created by middle class social elites, for use by middle class social elites, and that it is ‘politically correct’ rather than accurate. By all, and a wide variety of definitions and descriptors, ‘the ‘Middle Class’ comprises +/- 95% of the population in Australia, the US and Britain; the remaining 5% is divided equally amongst the rich and the poor/peasants.This song illustrates the tacit recognition that soldiers have that they are NOT ‘working class’, and, in fact, rate, are perceived as being of a lower status than even the unemployed. It is also tacit acknowledgement that the ‘Red Flag’, Socialist fascism is for Middle Class social elites and has nothing to do with ‘progress’ for anyone but themselves.