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http://www.worldsocialism.org/articles/imagine_by_john_lennon.php This is what the party wrote about John Lennon and his song Imagine, and also IMAGINE is the name of the journal of the Socialist Party of Canada (WSM )I don’t think John Lennon, or any of the members of the group of the Beatles were socialists, not even Vladimir Lenin can be considered a socialist, and he used more Marxist phraseologies than Lennon, and I do not think that he was ready to support a society without money when he was also a money making machine, he was not a Frederic Engels, or a William Morris .He wrote many songs with certain social content, but he had a romantic view about this society, he wants to make changes, but within the frame of the capitalist society like many others reformists have tried and continue trying in our days, his songs covered the same aspect of our society as the Cuban Trova which denounced imperialism, wars and hungers but also had a romantic view about the capitalist society, and think that capitalism can be reformed, and that changes might come through a leader, or a philanthropic personality.He was against the Vietnam war and against the horrors of wars but he was never against the real causes of wars like many anti-war groups who have disappeared from the face of the earth, and many of them were wrapping themselves in flags and singing patriotic songs and hymns. Several of those groups they played the anti-yankees card played by Mussolini, Hitler and the Japanese empire, as well the Soviet and the Chinese played the same card in certain historical moments. The problem in that historical epoch was not John F Kennedy, or Richard Nixon, it was the struggle among several world powers fighting for the same purposes. I don’t think he was killed because he was against the Vietnam war as some conspirators have been propagating, there were others groups which were more involved than him against the Vietnam war and they were not killed because of that, some of them were killed because they were Castroists or Maoist groups and they supported Debrayism and the guerrilla coup d’etat conception. They were against US imperialism but they supported Chinese and Soviet imperialism.John Lennon did support and financed several nationalists and terrorist groups including the IRA, but he also supported some Islamic nationalist movement. His religious point of view blocked him from understanding the real social problems of our society and that influence also blocked him in order to move forward in the same manner that nationalist Islam stopped Malcolm X in order to move to higher ground.