In my latest diary entry, I mentioned that the recent Spiderman movie was “practically a socialist tract.” In case my offhand comment inspires any Hollywood producers to go whole hog by creating a movie about a mild-mannered Socialist teen who is bitten by a rabidly Marxist spider, thereby enablng him to combine not merely the powers of man and spider but of Communist and Socialist as well, I would like to propose the following themesong.

[CHORUS 1]
Spiderman! Spiderman!
Does what Friedrich Engels can.
Hands out tracts in the parks.
Catches crooks while quoting Marx.
Look out! Here comes the Spiderman!
[CHORUS 2]
Spiderman! Spiderman!
Proletarian Spiderman!
He’ll assuage labor pains–
help the working man lose his chains.
Unite–under the Spiderman!
[BRIDGE]
At the mine, hired goons
try to break up a rally
From above, comes a tune–
The Internationale. Whee!
[CHORUS 3]
Spiderman! Spiderman!
Marxist/Socialist Spiderman!
Like a spandex
Eugene Debs,
controls the means
of making webs.
Unite! Under the Spiderman!
[OUTRO]
To him, work weeks should not be hectic
where there’s a dialectic
you’ll find the Spiderman.!