Are you on the side of the working class and a vision of socialism — or are you siding with capital and its enforcers?
Which Side Are You On" was written in 1931. Employment was at 25%, massive poverty collapsed faith in the American
The song I post was written in 1949 by Les Rice, a farmer from New York State, USA. It deals with the perverse injustice, exploitation and inequality Rice saw all around him. Pete Seeger wrote about Les Rice and this song:
QuoteLike most small farmers, he was getting intolerably squeezed by the big companies which sold him all his fertilizer, insecticide and equipment, and the big companies that dictated to him the prices he would get for his produce. Out of that squeeze came this song.