IT PROVIDES FAR MORE PROBLEMS

 

It provides far more problems

Than any solutions it brings

For communism doesn't work

As people like to own things

AS IVAN ILLICH ONCE WROTE

 

As Ivan Illich once wrote,

A man clearly cleverer than me

Who stated that within

A consumer society

There are inevitably

Two kinds of slaves

The prisoners of addiction

And the prisoners of envy

VLADIMIR ILYICH ULYANOV

 

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov

Was over in London, visiting

When Trotsky knocked the door

And asked “Is Len in?”

IT’S CAPITALISM THEN

 

Communism doesn’t really function

And it’s not too difficult to fathom

The reason for it is simple enough

People just like to own stuff

THE LIGHT OF MARXISM

 

No self-respecting Marxists would ever

Attempt to change a light bulb their self

For the seeds of revolution and change

Are already within the light bulb itself

GLASNOST

 

It would take a hundred and fifty-two communists

To change a light bulb in a socialist republic

One to petition the Ministry of Light for a new bulb

Fifty to establish the state production quota for it

A hundred militia to force production with the unions

And one to secretly order one on the Internet