There are two key classes in society - the working
class and big business. Working class people tend to
be in favour of a democratic socialist world - free
from poverty, famines, unemployment, environmental
destruction, deaths from preventable diseases,
discrimination and of course wars (although most do
not know how this can be achieved or have confidence
that it can). Big businessmen and women (and the
richest pop stars) tend to be in favour of maintaining
capitalism, as it is the only way to preserve their
wealth. Middle class people can be on either side.

Which side of the class struggle you are on at any
moment in time - specified by a variable that is
either GOOD or EVIL within your brain (representing
the working class or big business respectively) is the
most important determiner of your behaviour in
whatever you do (in particular in your job or
education, hobbies, friendships and love life).
Processes within your brain use models of the past and
present state of the world (to some degree of
complexity) in order to predict the future and
determine what you need to do to achieve your desired
outcome. This was dubbed "psychohistory" by the
science fiction author Isaac Asimov in his famous
Foundation series, which described a galactic
revolution and had a very left-wing ending to the
galaxy called "Galaxia" - when he wrote "Foundation's
Edge" and "Foundation and Earth" to add to the
original trilogy which had right wing language to get
past the censors. Psychohistory can be performed on
computers as well as brains - e.g. by using my
language SDML (see http://sdml.cfpm.org or go to its
discussion group that I have recently set up, for a
left-wing layperson's slant on SDML plus advice on how
to use it, at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/strictly-declarative-modelling-langauge).
In fact, I believe that the strongest conspiratorial
organisations on both sides of the class struggle use
SDML to perform psychohistorical modelling and try to
outwit the other side.

Psychohistory is also necessary for day to day tasks,
to achieve all sorts of minor sub-goals, but the
process at the deepest level of your subconscious is
dedicated to either helping or hindering a world
socialist revolution (according to whether the
variable is GOOD or EVIL at any point in time). That
variable can be changed as a result of internal or
external processes, except for a very small number of
individuals on the planet who are permanently GOOD
(including myself) and whom I have dubbed "angels".
Ordinary people's brains contain a mixture of
processes, some GOOD trying to help socialist
revolutions take place and some EVIL trying to stop
them; I used to think that all processes in angels'
brains are GOOD, but now think that this is true until
they have sex with a non-angel. Even for somebody who
is GOOD overall, the EVIL processes inside their
brains can stop them from being as GOOD as genuine
socialists would like. One way in which they do this
is by dissuading the brain from reading left-wing
material, particularly my documents on paper or the
internet (completely or at all). In the past, I
thought that internet censorship was responsible for
the relatively small number of people who have
accessed my website - 79 was the maximum number of
hits recorded for my socialist home page (originally
www.stevewallis.org) in one day, with double figures
in one day being rare - despite distributing messages
far and wide on the internet (and sometimes on
leaflets). I now realise that EVIL processes in
people's minds need to be overridden by more powerful
GOOD processes to persuade them to access my website,
although sometimes access has been stopped completely
(e.g. at the time of the Socialist Workers Party's
"Marxism 2004" event in the summer and just after my
visit to the Declaration of Calton Hill protest
organised by the Scottish Socialist Party in Edinburgh
on the 9th of October 2004). I have now massively
revamped the website and put it on a much faster
server, and put it at http://www.socialiststeve.me.uk.
Statistics for the website, including hits, can be
found from a link at the bottom of that page.

Big business needs to resort to forms of "mind
control" (such as hypnosis) to outwit a working class
which massively outnumbers them. Whereas I think that
some people, like Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Saddam
Hussein, George W Bush and Muqtada al-Sadr are aware
that they have committed/are committing evil acts
which keep big business in power across the globe,
most people whose internal variable is EVIL are not
aware of it and the role that they are playing.
Putting the happiness or success of people in your own
family, friends, race, religion or nationality above
that of homo sapiens as a whole is however a sign that
your internal variable is currently EVIL (but of
course it can be changed in various ways, e.g. by
rational argument, or in the course of a strike in
which black, Asian and white workers are brought
together in their battle against big business).

Music has always been used as part of the class
struggle, because songwriters, singers and musicians
can influence other people's views (in subtle or
blatant ways) by putting messages in the music. Most
songs are about love, but even if the songwriter is
unaware of it, his or her subconscious is planting
messages in songs.

Every genre of music originated from a particular
class, either struggling to overthrow its oppressors
or maintain its oppression. Note that capitalism was
progressive in the past in its struggle to overthrow
feudalism, during the French revolution for example,
where small businesspeople and peasants united to
overthrow the existing order.

Some genres of music originated from the ruling class
(which today is big business), others from the
oppressed class (generally the working class but
alongside the peasantry in the underdeveloped
countries: the so-called "third world"). Of course
there are many examples of musicians who were on the
opposite side to the originators of the genre of the
track that they have performed.

In my opinion, classical, heavy metal and rap
originated from the ruling classes, whereas folk, rock
and roll, reggae, soul and gospel originated from the
oppressed classes (usually black people, but I think
that folk originated amongst ordinary white people in
Britain and Ireland). Classical was convenient for the
ruling classes because members of the oppressed
classes have found it very hard to decipher the
meaning of symphonies, due to the lack of words. Heavy
metal is also convenient because you often can't hear
the words. [Indeed, a lot of modern pop music that has
reached the charts, in other genres like soul and R&B,
contains words that are sung in such a way that is
very hard to hear them; I believe that this is a
deliberate policy of the record industry, backed up by
people on the side of big business working in the TV
industry (in particular those who decide what songs to
promote before they reach the charts on the ITV1
programme "CD:UK") and the bureaucrats who choose the
Radio 1 playlist which restricts what the DJs are
allowed to play.]

Rap originated with black gangs in the USA I believe,
many of whom were into drugs and guns, with inter-gang
rivalries leading to many murders. Such gangs have
historically played a negative role in the struggle
for black liberation, in contrast to Martin Luther
King, Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party (the
latter armed themselves for self-defence, and argued
against the waste of lives caused by gangs, so their
use of guns was a different matter entirely). Rap
music tends to play a negative role today, because it
is often played loudly out of car stereos by black
men, irritating white neighbours (and turning some of
them into racists) due to the way it tends to grate on
the ears. Softer forms of rap, perhaps combined with
other genres (such as performed by the Fugees, Ms
Dynamite or Kelis with her excellent "Milk shake"
song, all of whom I like) can play a positive role.
Eminem has rightly been criticised for homophobic and
sexist lyrics in some of his songs, but I liked two of
Eminem's earliest songs "Stan" and "The Real Slim
Shady" (particularly "Stan" since Dido sang very well
on it); they didn't grate on the ears and there were
no dodgy lyrics that I recognised. However, Eminem
then started coming up with material that sounded
absolutely dreadful, but his recent album "Encore"
contains excellent politics, against George W Bush and
the war on Iraq.

The advice that artists get from their agents or
others in the music industry is important. In the
BBC's TV series "Fame Academy", black singer Lemar did
a brilliant version of Sinéad O'Connor's "Nothing
Compares 2 U", which he dedicated to his girlfriend (a
sign that he really liked it). However, in the final,
when the singers were asked to choose their best song
from the series, he performed a really uninteresting
soul song and came third, against David Sneddon and
Sinéad Quinn - and when he got a record contract he
carried on with that formula. However, some of his
more recent songs have shown much more originality;
that song does not neatly fit into a particular genre.
For more about "Fame Academy", visit my discussion
group:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fame-academy

I tend to prefer songs and artists which combine
genres, since they are generally more original than
those who stick to one. I like good love songs, but I
tend to prefer songs with explicitly left-wing lyrics.

I now regard Katrina and the Waves as my favourite
band of all time. I was very keen on their song
"Walking on Sunshine" when it came out (and liked most
of the songs on their albums as well) but didn't
realise how good they were politically at the time.
When I recently bought "The original recordings:
1983-1984" and read comments about the genres of that
band, a considerable list were mentioned, which helped
explain why I liked them so much. I finally found out
how good their politics were when I bought their CD
"Roses" in Canada, the only country in which it is
available because it is so good. I recently got hold
of again via ebay, having had it stolen along with
most of my collection a few years ago; the thief or
thieves nicely left me with most of my better CDs but
not that one. On that CD is my favourite song of all
time, "Walking Where the Roses Grow" - which I
interpret as meaning a socialist society where people
in the city are very well off and environmental
problems have been solved (the countryside is full of
roses). The CD also contains a great anti-war song
called "23rd Psalm". Katrina and the Waves also
performed "Love Shine a Light", which won the
Eurovision Song Contest by far the biggest margin ever
- because it spread a message of love around the world
which would mean an end to wars. It appeared on the
"Walk on Water" album which is good but not as good as
"Roses", and there is a brilliant "Xenomania club mix"
on the CD single. I've created the following
discussion groups around the band and those songs -
but discussion of music and/or politics generally will
be very welcome on those groups:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/katrina-and-the-waves
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/walking-where-the-roses-grow
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/23rd-psalm
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/love-shine-a-light-katrina

My favourite overtly political band of all-time is
Latin Quarter. Their only hit was "Radio Africa" - it
was flawed because it said that there was only bad and
sad news on Radio Africa at the time that there were
revolutionary movements in South Africa. However,
there are two brilliant songs on the album "Modern
Times" on which it appears: "America for Beginners"
(about the devious means in which big business stays
in power in the USA) and "Cora" (about a working class
woman's life through the ages). Their third album
"Swimming Against the Stream", which is very hard to
get hold of (like "Roses") is their best album. It
includes my favourite overtly political song of all
time "A Slow Waltz for Chile" (describing life and
death under the Pinochet dictatorship), plus
"Dominion" (about animal rights) and "Something isn't
Happening" (an excellent song about the lack of real
change under capitalism). I have been repeatedly
thrown off the Latin Quarter discussion group called
"alittlelatinquarter" and the moderator has even
deleted messages I had already sent, so that those who
read them via the web may not have seen them. Since
Steve Skaith (who was originally one of three singers
but eventually was the only one) has now formed the
Steve Skaith Band with other musicians, I have created
a new discussion group around Latin Quarter and the
Steve Skaith Band. I've set up further groups around
the best album and particular songs:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/latin-quarter-and-steve-skaith
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/america-for-beginners
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cora-lq
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/swimming-against-the-stream
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/slow-waltz-for-chile
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dominion-lq
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/something-isnt-happening

My favourite song and album of 2004 is Green Day's
"American Idiot". I have therefore set up a group
around them:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/american-idiot

My karaoke speciality is Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls
of Fire"; it never fails to go down a storm. The
version of that on the soundtrack of the film with the
same name is much better than any other version I have
heard, but I think I can sing it even better (but
there is a need for a brilliant keyboard player to
accompany me). Although outwardly a love song, I think
the great balls of fire could be interpreted as
fireballs travelling from one planet to another to
destroy the latter, which is what would happen if
George W Bush or Tony Blair was allowed into outer
space. My view is that there is an advanced socialist
society out there, keeping an eye on us, and that
people who are ultimately GOOD and willing to
cooperate after the world socialist revolution takes
place (perhaps after attempted counter-revolutions by
the forces of big business) will be allowed to travel
the galaxy. The rest, who are ultimately EVIL, will be
kept on the earth which will then be destroyed. There
are "van Allen belts" around the earth which emit so
much radiation that they would kill anybody who
attempts to get through them, and the "moon landing"
of 1969 was a hoax made in a desert (to deliver a
propaganda blow for the USA). If you don't believe
that it was a hoax, how come that there have hardly
been any visits to the moon in the 35 years since,
never mind manned journeys to Mars or Venus? The
following discussion group is based around "Great
Balls of Fire":

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/great-balls-of-fire

I've also set up the following discussion groups
around the artist Colin Vearncombe (a white
singer/guitarist/songwriter formerly known as
"Black"), who performed a song called "Fly Up to the
Moon", about when we are allowed to travel the galaxy:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/colin-vearncombe
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fly-up-to-the-moon

Bruce Springsteen's anti-war song "No Surrender" from
the "Born in the USA" album is particularly good, and
the fact that it was played as Senator Kerry went down
the aisle at the Democrats' Convention in 2004
indicated that he was not as pro-war as it seemed!
Bruce is unfortunately not as political now (if at
all), but I've set up the following group around that
song:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/no-surrender-springsteen

I have also set up a group around the female Scottish
singer Eddi Reader (who performed the hit single "The
Patience of Angels" and was previously in Frairground
Attraction and sang the number one hit "Perfect"):

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/patience-of-angels

My favourite duet of all time, which is very political
because it gives hope to a man in a suicidal frame of
mind due to the capitalist system he lives in is
"Don't Give Up" by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush. The
only music newsgroup (accessible via Google) that I
have been able to send messages to is rec.music.gaffa
for fans of Kate and similar kinds of music (it is
named after Kate's song "Suspended in Gaffa"), because
of the heavy censorship of other music newsgroups. If
you join the "love hounds" mailing list (named after
Kate's album and single "The Hounds of Love", see
http://gaffa.org/faq/faq_1_2.html) you can send
messages straight to the list and newsgroup. Therefore
I have sent a lot of political messages to it over the
years (some to do with music, others not). I have set
up the following discussion group based around the
song "Don't Give Up":

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dont-give-up

I also plan to set up a revolutionary socialist band
called Galaxia, named after the left-wing future of
the galaxy in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. I
can't play any instruments at all well, but I do have
a talent for singing, as people who hear me at karaoke
or singing along to a CD player can verify. I aim to
form Galaxia probably with four main singers - Martine
McCutcheon, (see
http://www.socialiststeve.me.uk/martine.htm), Konnie
Huq (who appeared on "Comic Relief does Fame Academy",
see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/konnie-huq-fans), a
Jewish woman I know (who is very supportive of
Palestinian rights) called Rebecca and myself - plus
the three Waves from Katrina and the Waves (Kimberley
Rew on guitar, Vince de la Cruz on bass guitar and
Alex Cooper on drums; Kimberley can also sing well as
he showed on their final album "Walk on Water" so he
can be an additional male singer) and Yona Dunsford
from Latin Quarter on keyboards and backing vocals
(her backing vocals were brilliant on "Modern Times"
and "Swimming Against the Stream"). I have
participated in a lot of conventional political
campaigns over the last fifteen and a half years, but
that alone won't achieve socialism; I am confident
that Galaxia can lead the way in educating young (and
not so young) people and inspiring them to play
leading roles themselves in overthrowing the
multinationals that control the planet inflicting so
much misery and death on ordinary people around the
globe. To find out about or discuss Galaxia, go to:

http://www.socialiststeve.me.uk/galaxia.htm
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/galaxiamusic

I want Galaxia's first single to be a cover version of
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (hence the need for three female
singers in it would make it very different from
Queen's or G4's versions) and contain a song that I
have started writing, called "The Revolution Starts
Now!", and I want our first album to be a live album,
named after that song. There is already a great song
and album by Steve Earle and the Dukes called "The
Revolution Starts..Now" so I have created a discussion
group around it. Colin Vearncombe's best version of
the song "Fly Up to the Moon" is on his live album
"Live at the Bassline Johannesburg", and I have
created a group around that album, because it seems a
good idea to play at that venue when Galaxia tours
South Africa, and record another album with that name.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the-revolution-starts-now
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/live-at-the-bassline-johannesburg

Steve Skaith has sent messages to the
'alittlelatinquarter' group (the only musician I know
of to send messages to his own discussion group) and I
would like him to send messages to my
'latin-quarter-and-steve-skaith' group, so I have set
it up to allow users to hide their email addresses. I
have done similarly with the 'katrina-and-the-waves',
'konnie-huq-fans' and 'galaxiamusic' groups for
similar reasons; I may adjust the options for a few of
my other groups soon.


--
Steve Wallis (http://www.socialiststeve.me.uk).
Initiator of Greater Manchester Democratic Socialist Alliance
(http://www.gmdsa.org.uk, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gmdsa) and Revolutionary
Platform of the Democratic Socialist Alliance
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/revolutionary-platform-of-democratic-socialist-al\
liance).
Member of Glasgow Shettleston branch of the Scottish Socialist Party
(http://www.scottishsocialistparty.org), supporter of the International
Socialist Movement platform of the SSP (http://www.redflag.org.uk) and initiator
of the Revolutionary Platform of the SSP
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/revolutionary-platform-of-the-ssp).
Initiator of the Campaign for Democracy in the UK
(http://www.democracycampaign.org.uk;
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/campaign-for-democracy-in-the-uk) and Campaign for
Sanity in the NHS (http://www.health-service-sanity.org).