Originally Posted by ScottKuma

So let's pick it apart, verse by verse...



So he's shooting down religion...that's one of the tenets of Communism, so...this verse gets a "yes".



Ditto on this one, sprinkled with some other altruistic thoughts.



Sure, if you wanted to stretch, this could be a call for comradeship....but I find that to be a bit of a stretch.



I'd classify this one as a Yes, again, as the absence/abolition of personal possessions is one of the basic tenets of Communism. The "sharing all the world" could again be put into that class....

So although yeah, the song definitely tries to get the listener to envision a Communistic utopia, I prefer to think of it as just a beautiful tune full of pie-in-the-sky ideas that will/would never work!