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Your Majesty​.​.​.

from Awaken Necropolis by Baby Killer Estelle

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The organization of the proletariat in accordance with the Bolshevik model resulted from the backwardness of Russia and from the abandonment of revolutionary struggle by the workers movements of the advanced countries. These same backward conditions also tended to foster the counterrevolutionary aspects which that form of organization had unconsciously contained from its inception. The repeated failure of the mass of the European workers movement to take advantage of the golden opportunities of the 1918-1920 period (a failure which included the violent destruction of its own radical minority) favored the consolidation of the Bolshevik development and enabled that fraudulent outcome to present itself to the world as the only possible proletarian solution. By seizing a state monopoly as sole representative and defender of working-class power, the Bolshevik Party justified itself and became what it already was: the party of the owners of the proletariat, owners who essentially eliminated earlier forms of property.

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by Bulat Okudzhava
translated by Alec Vagapov
http://vagalecs.narod.ru/Okudzh.htm
To P. Luspekayev
Look here, your Majesty, Mrs. Separation,
I am feeling cold with you, that’s the revelation.
Letter from the darling,
wait, don’t tear it off...
Out of luck in dying,
I’ll have luck in love.
 
 
Look here, you Majesty, Mrs. Alienation,
ardent was your hugging but with no affection.
In silky nets you’re trying
to catch me, now lay off...
Out of luck in dying,
I’ll have luck in love.
 
 
Look here, your Majesty, dear Mrs. Fortune,
you are good to some of us, to others you’re a torture.
Nine-gram piece of iron
for the heart’s enough...
Out of luck in dying,
I’ll have luck in love.
 
 
Look here, your Majesty, dear Mrs. Conquest,
I haven’t finished singing as you should have noticed.
Wretched things, stop lying,
don’t swear an oath on blood...
Out of luck in dying,
I’ll have luck in love.

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from Awaken Necropolis, released August 23, 2010

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