The Bourgeois Deal Brought Us More Than Pie In The Sky – OpEd
By Art Carden
In 1911, the labor activist and songwriter Joe Hill’s “The Preacher and the Slave” parodied the hymn “In the Sweet By-and-By” It dismissed the preachers’ exhortations and promises of a better future in eternity as lying, empty promises of “pie in the sky when you die” meant to keep the labor force docile and contentedly exploited.
“You’ll get pie in the sky when you die (That’s a lie!)” — Joe Hill
The answer, the song argues, is not to listen to the... Читать дальше...