The Workers of The World

A cynical look at communism

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)

- More quotations on: [Communism]

 

They made a system to liberate the worker

Then told us how it would operate

The Republic of and owned by the worker

The Ultimate Utopic state...

 

 

They told us then how to think,

What we could do, where we could go,

After freeing us from churches brainwashing,

Showed what politics and faith to show...

 

And to be thankful that the freed us

From that Capitalist slavery

So that as slaves to them

We were so fortunate to be

Reviews

[Katherine Moure]

It's not every day that one sees political criticisms on Writer's Cafe. It seems that under every economical structure, there is corruption of power and exploitation of people. It is depressing indeed that such is the nature of man. I like your opening quotation, and the general snarkiness of the poem. Unions are a great representation of the slippery slope from socialism to totalitarianism. Maybe if the unions start behaving better, we would have....
no... that will never happen...

[Phibby Venable]

freedom comes with a prize. i like how you summed it all up. very fine!

[pal]

Nobody exploits any.. it is the process of evolution.

pal

[Deborah Shepard]

amzing love your writing

[Kellius the Genius]

Freedom is a must .For any nation. The point of being enslaved
has becoming so tiring.The bigger heads of this nice and wonderful government
should really look carefully into the moral intake of there stuctured society.
It's crumbling because there afraid to allow the people to reach the point
of self thinking,They feel it's better to control what people think and how they act.
There is no justification for those type of measure.
Especially in this Business they called the United States.

[Susan S.]

This is not a screen play. It is some sort of free-verse poem.

"And to be thankful that the freed us" should be "And to be thankful that they freed us"

The last couple of lines are a bit awkward. I understand the intent you're going for, but it doesn't really come out in those last couple of phrases. Last lines should be the grand finale, not the discordant whimper.

[TL Boehm]

I concur. this one makes the reader think...amazing what people will agree to under the guise of progress...

[alternative_be]

Makes me think of George Orwell: all pigs are equal, but some pigs are more equal than others? The pigs telling the others what to think, do etc ... One form of slavery, replaced by another form of slavery ...

[Lena Bylow]

that's good...and wow...makes me thinks...