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...Ride Natty Ride," is the best on the album. Marley warns the Rastafari that unless they struggle, their way of life will soon be swept away by the forces of modernization. Once again, Marley refers to the need for violence...
This renewed endorsement of violence serves as Marley's own response--if not as the catalyst--to the recent increase in street-fighting in Trenchtown ghettos...
...final song on side one, "Ambush," is Marley's reflection on an incident that occurred when he tolerated the Jamaican political system. Marley had agreed to stage a benefit concert for labor party leader, Michael Manley. Days before the concert, professional gunmen ambushed Marley and his friends, killing one person. Rumors circulated that the attack had been a move by Manley to throw suspicion on his rivals just before the national election. Marley opens the song by mocking the values of the Jamaican power elite. He then asserts that his power to rally black Jamaicans against the system...
...side two, Marley continues to blast Bablyon. He points to the American insistence on going to the moon while Jamaicans went hungry as an example of the flaws in ruling class morality. In "Zimbabwe" Marley sings out, proclaiming once again the need for force...
...Marley's voice sounds sad, resigned. Violence works against everything he believes except his desire to end the brutal exploitation of his people...