Music for a Sunday: Mother, let me fight

I know I’ve posted this before, but Alí Primera’s great song about revolutionary mothers and the lessons they teach their children bears repeating. Especially in light of the fact that Mother’s Day didn’t start out as a commercialization of motherhood and sentimentality, but a revolutionary statement against capitalism and its wars, by mothers of those who died in them. Alí turns the issue around, recognizing a need to fight against capitalism and imperialism because his mother taught him to love his people and nature. It’s a song that has inspired many a Venezuelan (and other Latin Americans, too) to fight for their rights against a commercial juggernaut that would only too gladly swallow them…mothers and all.