We have chosen to release the song on November 7th since it is the date that marks the 100 years anniversary of the Russian revolution in 1917 (executed by Marx followers' Lenin and Trotsky).
Lyrically, we have never been about politics. And this hasn't changed that much now, though the timing of the release and the title do suggest otherwise. The thought about writing a song about Karl Marx materialized from my obsession with a lyric line by Emil: "I heard blood makes the grass grow faster". I just thought that was a great line. It implies a form of hidden oppression, almost Orwellian, and it made me think about 'Animal Farm' and '1984'. I see the "grass"-part as a metaphor for the Soviet Collectivization programmes under Stalin, which led to the deaths of a great many Russian farmers. And which is one of several things one would reasonably assume Marx did not intend with his radical ideas. The many perversions of ideas based on good intentions is at the forefront in this song. It is perhaps more of a comment on the Soviet Union than Marx' radical ideas. Marx' voice from the grave.
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