Who defends the city? - Kenti kim koruyor/savunuyor?

kent yoksulluğu ve dışlanmışlığının/ayrışmanın 19.yy Paris-Londra sahnelerini çağırdığı bugünlerde Paris Komünü'nü tarih-ötesi bir deneyim olarak idealleştirmenin zararı var mıdır bilmiyorum. Atina 2008, Paris Komünü 1871 ve Rimbaud, Clash 1982

when scenes of 19th century London or Paris are recalled in the face of urban/metropolitan encounters of the present, is it actually worthless to idealize the Paris Commune as a meta-historical experience?

The Clash, Ghetto Defendant from the album Combat Rock (1982)
(Italics: Allen Ginsberg lyrics)

Starved in metropolis
hooked on necropolis
addict of metropolis
do the worm on acropolis
slam dance the metropolis
enligthen the populace

Hungry darkness of living
who will thirst in the pit?
hooked in nicropolis
she spent a lifetime deciding
how to run from it
addict of metropolis
once fate had a witness
and the years seemed like friends
girlfriends
now the doll has a dream
but it begins like the end
shot in eternity
methadone kitty
iron serenity

Ghetto defendant
it is heroin pity
not tear gas nor baton charge
that stops you taking the city

Strung out committee

Walled out of the city
clubbed down from uptown
sprayed pest from the nest
run out to barrio town
the guards are itchy
forced to watch at the feast
then sweep up the night
flipped pieces of coin
broken bottles
exchanged for birthright
grafted in a jiffy

Ghetto defendant
it is heroin pity
strung out committee
not tear gas nor baton charge
will stop you taking the city

The ghetto prince of gutter poets
was bounced out of the room
jean arthur rimbaud
by the bodyguards of greed
for disturbing the tomb
1873
his words like flamethrowers
paris commune
burnt the ghettos in their chests
his face painted whiter
then he was laid to rest
died in marseille

Ghetto defendant
buried in charleville
it is heroin pity
not tear gas nor baton charge
stops you taking the city

Shut up in an eternity

it is heroin pity
not tear gas nor baton charge
that stops you taking the city

Guatemala honduras poland the hundred years war
tv rerun in vision deathsquad salvadore
afghanistan meditation old chinese nude
get junk, what else can the poor worker do?

(Muttering throughout)

ghetto defendant
it is heroin pity
not tear gas nor baton charge
stops you taking the city
[Repeat]