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The Kids are Proper Communists

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I’ve always supported freedom and equality

I wanted minorities to have equal opportunity.

I believed in promoting a liberal social order,

Showing non-aggression and peace at the border.

I wanted to teach the world to live in perfect harmony,

So that our new Utopia would all be down to me,

But my kids are proper communists,

They want to overthrow the state.

They will give everyone what they need,

And take whatever the wealthy can pay.

Workers will take the means of production,

And profit will be a thing of the past.

Even if there’s no greed reduction,

The billionaire power will never last.

They’ve declared private property a lie,

And reliance on investment income will die.

The worker and his value no longer alienated.

The greed of the bourgeoisie no longer sated.

My kids are proper communists,

Syndicalism will arrive any day.

My kids are proper communists.

You better get the hell out of the way.

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M.C. Newberry

Wed 20th Feb 2019 00:50

It is the duty (and it's expected) of the young to rebel against the
"old order". Sometimes, something good comes but with it the
dangerous exhilaration of uncontrolled behaviour (called "letting the
genie out of the bottle"), and the last line in this blog has its ring of
truth. Youth has to have an old head on young shoulders if it is to
have any real value in the long term.
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<Deleted User> (18980)

Tue 19th Feb 2019 16:57

Tell them to move to Venezuela Randy, see how they like it.

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