• QuietCupcake [any, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      6 days ago

      Thanks for attributing it. I was wondering if I had heard/read those lines before.

      If anyone is interested, it’s part of a longer poem Communism is the Middle Term. Here it is in full:

      To call for the overthrow of the existing order
      May seem a terrible thing
      But what exists is no order.
      To seek refuge in violence
      May seem evil.
      But what is constantly at work is violence
      And there is nothing special about it.
      Communism is not the extreme outlier
      That only in a small part can be realized,
      and until it is not completely realized,
      The situation is unbearable
      Even for someone who is insensitive.
      Communism is really the most minimal demand
      What is nearest, reasonable, the middle term.
      Whoever is opposed to it is not someone who thinks otherwise
      It is someone who does not think or who thinks only about himself
      It is an enemy of the human species who,
      Terrible
      Evil
      Insensitive
      And, in particular,
      Wanting the most extreme, realised even in the tiniest part,
      Plunges all humankind into destruction.