Now you listen to me

[sathor]

Unbreakable union of freeborn republics
Great Russia has welded forever to stand!
Created in struggle by will of the peoples
United and mighty, our Soviet land!

CHORUS:

Glory to our great Motherland, mighty and free,

Bulwark of people, in brotherhood strong!

Oh! Party of Lenin! The strength of the people.

To Communism's triumph lead us on!

2.
Through tempests the sun rays of freedom have cheered us
Along the new path where great Lenin did lead!
To a righteous cause he raised up the people
Inspired them to labour and valorous deed!

CHORUS

3.
In the victory of Communism's deathless ideal,
We see the future of our dear land
And to her fluttering scarlet banner,
selflessly true, we always shall stand

Show me a country that had ideals so focused on THE PEOPLE anywhere else. If only we could try it in the west, it would succeed, and be the most beautiful and ever lasting government in the history of the world.

Comments

[sathor.livejournal.com]

Now you sound like an anarchist!

Now maybe we've found somewhere we agree ;)

[chaos5023.livejournal.com]

I might be an anarchist in my heart, but never in my head. Anarchism, like communism, requires a level of cognizance, agency and general non-assholishness from people that is completely unreasonable to expect from most people, and the sort of cradle-to-grave thought control that would be necessary to impose those qualities on us is itself an unconscionable, inhuman atrocity. (Russia and China's half-assed failures at that kind of thing are bad enough; success would be infinitely worse.)

I'd be a libertarian, except that I believe the market needs the state to set the boundaries of where competition is allowed to go. Otherwise, the nature of the market is that if there is a business advantage to be gained by harvesting the organs of Bolivian orphans, eventually someone will harvest the organs of Bolivian orphans for business advantage, and everyone else will perforce begin harvesting the organs of Bolivian orphans or be driven out of business.

The state, however, needs to shut the fuck up about how I live my personal life.