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Workers of the World ...

Friday, July 19, 2002

• TITLE: "Workers of the World �" An early translation of the Communist Manifesto had the concluding words as "Working men of all countries, unite!" This was changed in a later translation to, "Proletarians of all countries, unite!"

  The popular phrase, "Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains," does not appear.

  Nor does the equally popular Dyslexic's Manifesto which reads, "Workers of the world, untie!"

• However, all Workers' Paradises were not created equal.

  From Newsweek: On June 17, 1953, East Germany erupted in a series of workers' riots and demonstrations that shocked the ruling Socialist Unity Party and their Kremlin sponsors. Beyond calls for labor reform, demonstrators began to demand more fundamental changes such as free elections. Though Moscow was distracted by Stalins' death three months earlier, they reacting swiftly--sending in tanks and ordering Red Army troops to open fire on the protesters.

• " � Communist Manifesto �" Here's a link to the Communist Manifesto which every true Socialist has actually read, Das Kapital being a totally unreadable document.

  Here is the concluding paragraph from Volume I (1867):

  "However, we are not concerned here with the conditions of the colonies. The only thing that interests us is the secret discovered in the new world by the Political Economy of the old world, and proclaimed on the housetops: that the capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property; in other words, the expropriation of the laborer."

  See what I mean?

  
  
  "...Heaven on Earth" Here's the link to Amazon.com if you want to purchase Muravchik's book.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• "� Anything Goes �" This is a line from the song "Anything Goes" by Cole Porter. It was the title song of a musical which opened on November 21, 1934. The 1936 screen version starred Ethel Merman and Bing Crosby.

  An excerpt of the lyric goes as follows:

  In olden days, a glimpse of stocking
  Was looked on as something shocking.
  But now, God knows,
  Anything goes.
  Good authors, too, who once knew better words
  Now only use four-letter words
  Writing prose.
  Anything goes.

  The world has gone mad today
  And good's bad today,
  And black's white today,
  And day's night today,
  And that gent today
  You gave a cent today
  Once had several chateaux.

• "... New York Times Poll ..." Here's a link to the New York Times poll.
  
  
          World War I Poster

  
  

•     Mullings' Catchy Caption of the Day:
  

  
  A rare, unstaged, absolutely candid photo in the Oval
  Office yesterday.

  AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais ____________________________________________________________________________________