In the 1840's, the rent strike among the tenant farmers (aka peasants) of upstate New York changed a lot of things. It's high time for more like that...
Fun fact: Kiliaen van Rensselaer never visited any of the land that he purchased in New York. He was so rich, he bought hundreds of thousands of acres from the American Indians just because he could. And then he charged people to live there.
i was doing a lot of stuff that year involving rhythmically thumping my right hand on the guitar on every down beat, kind of like a stomp box. if you want to try it, the key is that the thumping is the main thing you want to keep going, and everything else has to work around that without messing up the thump.
Yeah, good guitar but talking Shite. If you want to be a socialist - go try living in China or Russia, B ut you can't have Socialist benefits in a Capitalist country. Go look at how they live in Socialist societies, you'll soon be back.
fun fact: monopoly was created to showcase the unfairness of landownership. Which is why its game mechanics seem so flawed(the richer you get the easier it gets, no real comeback mechanics except like two cards)
@@legalizeit9558 Ya, I think I remember hearing that somewhere. Real ironic how a game that was credit to show how bad monopolies are is owned by a company that almost has an monopoly on the board game industry
@@legalizeit9558 Not only that. The original creator called it "The Landlord Game", but the board game only found a niche market. It was only in the 1920's during the Great Depression that the board game was "reinvented" and patented into Monopoly as we know it today by another person who pretended that he was the original creator, and marketed Monopoly as an entrepreneurial game, thus completely casting aside its original message. There's a very good video about it made by Tom Nicholas: ruclips.net/video/B7nFA19Gzrw/видео.html
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I just found you online. fantastic material, performance and sincerity. thank you so much for this, comrade!
It’s kind of funny that Henry Bell Van Rensselaer represented the NY 14th and today AOC does. Kind of a poetically just... anyways great song thank you for posting.
@TheBendablespoons i think she genuinly inteded to make a difference, and has in some small ways here and there. but the system will sooner change the people who join than change itself for them. im sure by the end of her career she wont recognize herself... if she stays inside the system.
This song never fails to give me pure, concentrated revolutionary drive and also quite a good mood, despite the grim topic. The tunes are just that good.
Swedish government discussing "market rents" next week, investigating the possibility of allowing landlords to take any rent without restriction for newely constructed houses, in a couple of years complete market rents will be the next step. The "tenant association" currently negotiates rents every year to make sure that they aren't raised too much (they always are), this is the only protection tenants have right now, with market rents there will be nothing stopping landlords from sucking the working class dry.
yeah, any country that does away with rent control as you're describing is doomed. they often start the process of turning their economies over to the capitalists a little at a time, like the way they started selling off public housing in england in the 80's, or the way they have done the same kind of partial lifting of rent control for certain buildings, which is how they've been doing it in new york city and berlin.
@@drovics They failed. One party who supported the forming of the current government stood up against it. They held a vote of no confidence and it worked.
Germany has the problem of no rent control, we have extremly high rents for tiny apartments in or near citys, which are unpayable exept your very rich, so it's almost impossable to get a affordable city near apartment as a regular individual, let alone as a family. This creates an extreme inequality, the rich may live in the city and the average outside, while the poor live on the street. Living in a smal village and always traveling to your workplace in the city is also not a good option, since our public transport system in rural areas is awful and expensive, going by car is often the only possibility, which expensive aswell and bad for the environment. Those who have a city near cheap apartment from the times these still exited get bullied out of the houses so the landlords and big housing comabnies can raise the rents. Just look up the avarage renting price of a square meter in Frankfurt, Munich or Berlin. I say socialize the land and housing! Socialize all services for the public, such as hospitals, energy production, waste disposal, etc.!
People of the world need to rise up, and overthrow the rich and landlords. If they don't yield, they should suffer the same fate as the workers who went on strike when the 'state' and private cops came and killed them. Take the land back from them.
Listening to this song while getting into an argument with a landlord in another RUclips comment section. You ain't been doing nothing if you ain't been called a red - was called "Karl Marx Jr." by the leech, and replied that I'd prefer to be compared to Kropotkin or Malatesta, but still am honoured by the compliment.
Indeed. The term "communist" has become bastardised by the Red Scare to the point of being the leftist equivalent of being called a fascist. Back when I was merely a centre-left social democrat, I would always clarify that I'm not a commie myself. But now, I take being called a communist not as an insult but as a compliment, especially by the US conservatives who see anything left of centre as communist.
there are, actually. but there should be more of them, and bigger ones, full of militant people who are ready to get arrested. then we could get somewhere...
We need a full-on rent strike - landlords don't deserve to exist! They never stopped collecting (while taking all they could from the handouts the govt gave to "small businesses" & meanwhile homeowners didn't have to pay their mortgages!) even tho COVID is still ongoing, so many people continue to be evicted
@@spellman007 there are 2 chords in the song, actually -- d and a. tho i'm playing in dadgad, with a capo on the second fret, so it's more like e and b, both suspended-sounding, somewhere between major and minor. but just the 2 chords, anyway. i have sheet music for a lot of songs up at www.davidrovics.com/songbook.
I know! Biden sucks right. Let’s go Brandon! I could afford things under trump can’t afford diddly under this clown. Gas food rent all going up and this incoherent duffous is running the ship into the ground. Bet you wish you could change your vote now.
depends on your definition. i never use the term, for the same reason that pete seeger stopped using it -- it's meaningless, as it's generally used, and if used properly, it's uselessly broad.
@@drovics Ah, I understand. Thanks for the reply BTW! I'm a recent Marxist-Leninist. Used to be a Trump supporter, but I'm done with the duopoly. I was a liberal than a Trump supporter and now a Marxist-Leninist. I guess you could say that I learned the hard way...
what a lovely question. it is, but mainly these days most people listen to it online for free, and a select and wonderful few support my efforts to keep doing this by joining my community-supported art program: www.davidrovics.com/subscribe
I am a landlord and worked hard for years to pay the mortgage. My right to be a landlord was earned by the sweat of my brow. Some people in the West inherited massive stolen wealth and some built it up. I am just lucky to be living in a place and time that makes it possible for the working class renter to become a landlord. Best wishes from China 🇨🇳.
MUTAFUCA I mean I'm a "capitalist" as in I'm a supporter of capitalism. Not necessarily a member of the bourgeoisie (as anarchists and communists define it)
What’s leftist about it. This is revolution music like rage against the machine republicans freed the slaves that sounds pretty leftist to me. it’s the corporations and ownership by people that is the problem bezos is a leftist and one of the worst offenders treating his employees as disposable. Google, Apple, etc left right makes no difference exploitation is exploitation no matter what side of the fence it comes from. It’s about classes and the sooner people wake up to that fact the sooner we will be free from division and being conquered. Divide and conquer isn’t just on the battlefield it’s on Main Street.
that's like saying we have the right to bludgeon each other to death because by nature we can do that. rights are granted by societies, or not. that includes the right to bludgeon people to death, the right to beat your children, the right to have an abortion, the right to own land. that's what rights are -- it's about societal laws (that is, laws) not nature. in nature, no one owns anything -- this is a human concept, not a natural one.
no idea what you mean by that. where do people exist "in nature"? we exist in societies, not in nature. non-human animals exist in nature, in that sense, as far as i understand the concept.
Then what about humans that live off the grid? You know in cabins in the woods rather removed from society would they count as living in nature? Because I'm willing to be they believe in private property.
you worked to earn money that you used to become a landlord? Because being the owner is not work. Even when you as a landlord do work, you’re paid not for that work but for the hostage situation of ownership. Consider the fact that if you hired someone to do all the paperwork or whatever that you do as a landlord, you would still make money after paying that property manager and taxes…
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That guitar solo is absolute burning hot 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Fun fact: Kiliaen van Rensselaer never visited any of the land that he purchased in New York. He was so rich, he bought hundreds of thousands of acres from the American Indians just because he could. And then he charged people to live there.
In light of COVID19, I'll be sending this to my landlord instead of rent
excellent! i'm very curious how this developing rent strike movement is going to go...
How did it go
Exactly why there never should have been moratorium.
@@orangsleice6540 I moved into a disabled housing co-op after 3 months of telling the landlord to get stuffed on the rent.
Gee, how about me? Send me a copy too / I might end up marrying you!
Worker at a a party: so what do you do for a living?
Landlord: I own your house
It is pitch fork time.
I can’t stop listening just because of how well you play that guitar.
i was doing a lot of stuff that year involving rhythmically thumping my right hand on the guitar on every down beat, kind of like a stomp box. if you want to try it, the key is that the thumping is the main thing you want to keep going, and everything else has to work around that without messing up the thump.
David Rovics Great song. By the way, are you a leftist?
@@anthonytarczynski5423 I hate to speak for him but according to the internet he's an anarchist
Yeah, good guitar but talking Shite. If you want to be a socialist - go try living in China or Russia, B ut you can't have Socialist benefits in a Capitalist country. Go look at how they live in Socialist societies, you'll soon be back.
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Alright hun.
I wish this genre of music was more popular nowadays, especially with artists as talented as you
Me when I land on boardwalk with a hotel in monopoly
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I laughed so hard when I read it
fun fact: monopoly was created to showcase the unfairness of landownership. Which is why its game mechanics seem so flawed(the richer you get the easier it gets, no real comeback mechanics except like two cards)
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Ya, I think I remember hearing that somewhere.
Real ironic how a game that was credit to show how bad monopolies are is owned by a company that almost has an monopoly on the board game industry
@@legalizeit9558
Not only that. The original creator called it "The Landlord Game", but the board game only found a niche market. It was only in the 1920's during the Great Depression that the board game was "reinvented" and patented into Monopoly as we know it today by another person who pretended that he was the original creator, and marketed Monopoly as an entrepreneurial game, thus completely casting aside its original message.
There's a very good video about it made by Tom Nicholas:
ruclips.net/video/B7nFA19Gzrw/видео.html
I just found you online. fantastic material, performance and sincerity. thank you so much for this, comrade!
It’s kind of funny that Henry Bell Van Rensselaer represented the NY 14th and today AOC does. Kind of a poetically just... anyways great song thank you for posting.
please pay attn to AOC....she lines up WITH power on a few issues. My jury on her has been sent back out, and i'm paying close attn.
@TheBendablespoons i think she genuinly inteded to make a difference, and has in some small ways here and there. but the system will sooner change the people who join than change itself for them. im sure by the end of her career she wont recognize herself... if she stays inside the system.
I'm obsessed with this song. Its powerful and so catchy! If I had a hat, it would be tipped to you!
Sadly more relevant than ever in the US
This song never fails to give me pure, concentrated revolutionary drive and also quite a good mood, despite the grim topic. The tunes are just that good.
The working class needs to realize that the answer to this question is “we do” and we can change it.
Ur great, Rovics!
Always giving me chills!!!!
شكرا شكرا شكرا
This guy should arrested for disturbing aHmerican greed...he he, Love you...
Swedish government discussing "market rents" next week, investigating the possibility of allowing landlords to take any rent without restriction for newely constructed houses, in a couple of years complete market rents will be the next step.
The "tenant association" currently negotiates rents every year to make sure that they aren't raised too much (they always are), this is the only protection tenants have right now, with market rents there will be nothing stopping landlords from sucking the working class dry.
yeah, any country that does away with rent control as you're describing is doomed. they often start the process of turning their economies over to the capitalists a little at a time, like the way they started selling off public housing in england in the 80's, or the way they have done the same kind of partial lifting of rent control for certain buildings, which is how they've been doing it in new york city and berlin.
@@drovics
They failed. One party who supported the forming of the current government stood up against it. They held a vote of no confidence and it worked.
Germany has the problem of no rent control, we have extremly high rents for tiny apartments in or near citys, which are unpayable exept your very rich, so it's almost impossable to get a affordable city near apartment as a regular individual, let alone as a family. This creates an extreme inequality, the rich may live in the city and the average outside, while the poor live on the street. Living in a smal village and always traveling to your workplace in the city is also not a good option, since our public transport system in rural areas is awful and expensive, going by car is often the only possibility, which expensive aswell and bad for the environment. Those who have a city near cheap apartment from the times these still exited get bullied out of the houses so the landlords and big housing comabnies can raise the rents. Just look up the avarage renting price of a square meter in Frankfurt, Munich or Berlin. I say socialize the land and housing! Socialize all services for the public, such as hospitals, energy production, waste disposal, etc.!
People of the world need to rise up, and overthrow the rich and landlords. If they don't yield, they should suffer the same fate as the workers who went on strike when the 'state' and private cops came and killed them.
Take the land back from them.
I literally found this song yesterday and have listened to it 100 times since.
David Rovics carrys the torch of Phil Ochs. He is the modern troubadour of justice and human decency!!
Wow. Great song. Great politics and history.
Solidarity forever
Two horns up.
Three arrows down and to the left.
🤘🤩🤘
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I'd mosh to this
great quality recording! thank you, love David's energy!
I love your music
Listening to this song while getting into an argument with a landlord in another RUclips comment section. You ain't been doing nothing if you ain't been called a red - was called "Karl Marx Jr." by the leech, and replied that I'd prefer to be compared to Kropotkin or Malatesta, but still am honoured by the compliment.
Indeed. The term "communist" has become bastardised by the Red Scare to the point of being the leftist equivalent of being called a fascist.
Back when I was merely a centre-left social democrat, I would always clarify that I'm not a commie myself.
But now, I take being called a communist not as an insult but as a compliment, especially by the US conservatives who see anything left of centre as communist.
you are the best..man O_O
the John Darnielle of the left. Incredible tune!
i don't know who that is, but thanks!
john darnielle is the john darnielle of the left: ruclips.net/video/_2ajMrnVmxE/видео.html
Dude, this is fucking awesome!
Heck yeah
There should be housing unions.
there are, actually. but there should be more of them, and bigger ones, full of militant people who are ready to get arrested. then we could get somewhere...
it took a pandemic to create and massify tenant unions
We need a full-on rent strike - landlords don't deserve to exist! They never stopped collecting (while taking all they could from the handouts the govt gave to "small businesses" & meanwhile homeowners didn't have to pay their mortgages!) even tho COVID is still ongoing, so many people continue to be evicted
great song!
No one gave them the right. They stolen it and then kept it with brutality. We should now answer that.
I wish I was friends with this guy
You are, as the kids say, very pogchamp, just as those tenant farmers were when they yeeted their landlord. In minecraft.
It's a bop. Go off.
Best version hands down
Your good at the guitar
Can you tell your camera man to pan it down a lil so I can see the chords? Thanks,
click this link and scroll down to get the free sheet music with chords: www.davidrovics.com/songbook/landlord-2/
@@drovics Oh thank you my friend. I'll sing this loud and proud.
Zachary Jollimore funny seeing you here comrade ❤️🖤
@@Stonewall_Ultra Cover this one comrade?
holy shit love it!!
Never heard of him, he's pretty cool, mine is not good with maintenance
this would be a fucking sick metal song!
i'd love to hear it!
@@drovics chords? lolz
@@spellman007 there are 2 chords in the song, actually -- d and a. tho i'm playing in dadgad, with a capo on the second fret, so it's more like e and b, both suspended-sounding, somewhere between major and minor. but just the 2 chords, anyway. i have sheet music for a lot of songs up at www.davidrovics.com/songbook.
Someone please post the lyrics of his songs as English isn't my first language.
www.davidrovics.com/songbook/landlord-2/
Brilliant
Perfect song for when half of America's renters get evicted due to a manchild handling Covid.
I know! Biden sucks right. Let’s go Brandon! I could afford things under trump can’t afford diddly under this clown. Gas food rent all going up and this incoherent duffous is running the ship into the ground. Bet you wish you could change your vote now.
@@caseyreed5231 Change your vote right to the CPUSA more like it
Does this count as folk music?
depends on your definition. i never use the term, for the same reason that pete seeger stopped using it -- it's meaningless, as it's generally used, and if used properly, it's uselessly broad.
@@drovics Ah, I understand. Thanks for the reply BTW! I'm a recent Marxist-Leninist. Used to be a Trump supporter, but I'm done with the duopoly. I was a liberal than a Trump supporter and now a Marxist-Leninist. I guess you could say that I learned the hard way...
Love this thing
Dude you're amazing hook up with Jimmy Dore
Lal Salaam Comrade
Oh my god, this song is beautiful but I can't really understand some lines, does anyone know where to get the lyrics?
The lyrics are on his bandcamp site:
davidrovics.bandcamp.com/track/landlord
thank you very much
Is your music available anywhere to buy?
what a lovely question. it is, but mainly these days most people listen to it online for free, and a select and wonderful few support my efforts to keep doing this by joining my community-supported art program: www.davidrovics.com/subscribe
You mean Savdi FSB gop..faux lord's?
kARAOKE OR LYRIC VERSION PLEASE JUST TLET THEM KNOW
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I'm steeling this song. But I’m naming it David Rovics.
Whose listening to this in 2021 seems the conspiracy theorists where right 😁
I am a landlord and worked hard for years to pay the mortgage. My right to be a landlord was earned by the sweat of my brow. Some people in the West inherited massive stolen wealth and some built it up. I am just lucky to be living in a place and time that makes it possible for the working class renter to become a landlord.
Best wishes from China 🇨🇳.
You know leftist music is good when even a capitalist like me can enjoy it 😀
Seriously, this guy is a master of the guitar!
Dont call yourself a capitalist if you dont own means of production
MUTAFUCA I mean I'm a "capitalist" as in I'm a supporter of capitalism.
Not necessarily a member of the bourgeoisie (as anarchists and communists define it)
@@XXStrong1 that just makes you a bootlicker pal. glad you can get down to good music though
What’s leftist about it. This is revolution music like rage against the machine republicans freed the slaves that sounds pretty leftist to me. it’s the corporations and ownership by people that is the problem bezos is a leftist and one of the worst offenders treating his employees as disposable. Google, Apple, etc left right makes no difference exploitation is exploitation no matter what side of the fence it comes from. It’s about classes and the sooner people wake up to that fact the sooner we will be free from division and being conquered. Divide and conquer isn’t just on the battlefield it’s on Main Street.
We inadvertently gave/give them the right by playing along. I don't know, just a thought.
Tbh they have the right to own land so none of use gave them the right they have the right to do so just by nature
that's like saying we have the right to bludgeon each other to death because by nature we can do that. rights are granted by societies, or not. that includes the right to bludgeon people to death, the right to beat your children, the right to have an abortion, the right to own land. that's what rights are -- it's about societal laws (that is, laws) not nature. in nature, no one owns anything -- this is a human concept, not a natural one.
It's not like saying that at all my dude. Even in nature people have private property.
no idea what you mean by that. where do people exist "in nature"? we exist in societies, not in nature. non-human animals exist in nature, in that sense, as far as i understand the concept.
Then what about humans that live off the grid? You know in cabins in the woods rather removed from society would they count as living in nature? Because I'm willing to be they believe in private property.
I worked to be a landlord
you worked to earn money that you used to become a landlord? Because being the owner is not work. Even when you as a landlord do work, you’re paid not for that work but for the hostage situation of ownership. Consider the fact that if you hired someone to do all the paperwork or whatever that you do as a landlord, you would still make money after paying that property manager and taxes…
And a thief works hard to not get caught, but that doesn't give them the right to what they stole, now does it?
people hating on other people who thought ahead🤣😂
What?
Lick that boot.
Mumble mumble mumble , can't tell what you are saying.
If you have hearing issues or you don't know how to turn your volume up, you might seek help, rather than criticizing my perfect diction.
@@drovics r/murderbywords
@@drovics what a hero!
i oftentimes have trouble hearing the words in songs, but this dude speaks loud enough and doesn’t slur any of his words. how can you not hear?
I thought this was going to be antisemitic
Henry Hamilton that's a very strange comment to make.