Communism in Verse
Author: Eric Petersen
Come
gather round me comrades, and hear my little lecture,
The bourgeois world is haunted by Communism's spectre -
Thus wrote Karl & Freddy - their words I will relate,
from the Manifesto of 1848.
All
History tells a tale of struggles between classes -
Slaves & freemen, serfs & lords, labourers & masters,
[in a word] Oppressor and oppressed fought in constant opposition,
While the modern bourgeois rise like scum to dominant position.
The
bourgeoisie converts the family to but a cash relation.
For feudal ties it substitutes more brutal exploitation,
All that's solid
melts. All that's sacred is profaned.
By bourgeois competition and bourgeois money gain.
Their commercial crises are such an absurdity,
They show we can no longer afford the bourgeoisie
It is unfit to rule, it cannot feed its slaves,
And so the bourgeoisie creates, the digger of its grave:
The
working class must win the battle of democracy,
And expropriate all capital from the bourgeoisie.
So the workers control all industry, and create a workers' state,
which ends all exploitation & a free world does create
The
Communists encourage the working class to see
The class antagonism between prole & bourgeoisie
They openly declare their aims include the abolition
Of existing social & political conditions.
Communists disdain to conceal their views & aims.
The workers have no country, and nought to lose but chains.
They have a world to win. Let the ruling class take fright,
at communist revolution - workers everywhere unite!
Copyright Eric Petersen
Updated: 20 February, 2006
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