You can’t CMV. It’s quite clearly an anthem sung from the perspective of the revolutionaries amidst their struggles.

Let us examine the lyrics.

*On a cold winter morning

In the time before the light

In flames of Death’s eternal reign

We ride towards the fight

When the darkness has fallen down

And the times are tough, alright

The sound of evil laughter falls

Around the world tonight*

Clearly the stage is being set here - the communist forces have chosen to begin their revolution in the winter. The sound of evil laughter is a stand in for capitalism here. The “time before the light” is the pre-socialist period.

*Fighting hard, fighting on for the steel

Through the wastelands evermore

The scattered souls will feel the hell

Bodies wasted on the shores

On the blackest plains in hell’s domain

We watch them as they go

In fire and pain, now once again

We know*

Through the wastelands of capitalism, our revolutionaries choose to push on in their struggle, for they know it is just.

*So now, we fly ever free, we’re free before the thunderstorm

On towards the wilderness, our quest carries on

Far beyond the sundown, far beyond the moonlight

Deep inside our hearts and all our souls

So far away, we wait for the day

For the lives, all so wasted and gone

We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days

Through the fire and the flames, we carry on*

The prechorus and chorus describes the soul of the revolutionary - their bodies may be engaged in a war against the capitalist hordes, but in their hearts, they are free, for they have class consciousness, solidarity, and are working to change their world.

*As the red day is dawning

And the lightning cracks the sky

They’ll raise their hands to the heavens above

With resentment in their eyes

Running back through the mid-morning light

There’s a burning in my heart

We’re banished from a time in a fallen land

To a life beyond the stars

In your darkest dreams, see to believe

Our destiny this time

And endlessly we’ll all be free

Tonight*

The “red day dawning” is quite obvious here. On a more literal level, this verse depicts the capitalist frustration - these revolutionaries had been exiled, but are now returning to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. The capitalists are throwing up their hands in frustration as they are being beaten back. The communists know they will win, and are winning here.

*And on the wings of a dream, so far beyond reality

All alone in desperation, now the time has gone

Lost inside you’ll never find, lost within my own mind

Day after day, this misery must go on

Now, here we stand with their blood on our hands

We fought so hard now, can we understand?

I’ll break the seal of this curse if I possibly can

For freedom of every man*

While the revolutionaries did not want to engage in violent struggle, it was necessary for their revolution. They may have blood on their hands in a quite literal sense here, but they know that their revolution could not have succeeded peacefully. The final lyrics to the song reaffirm their commitment to fighting for the people.

This is dialectics.