OMG! They even talk about "thieves"! How petty-bourgeois can you get?
--- On Mon, 3/23/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> The Internationale [variant words in square
> brackets]
>
> Arise ye workers [starvelings] from your slumbers
> Arise ye prisoners of want
> For reason in revolt now thunders
> And at last ends the age of cant.
> Away with all your superstitions
> Servile masses arise, arise
> We'll change henceforth [forthwith] the old tradition
> [conditions]
> And spurn the dust to win the prize.
>
> So comrades, come rally
> And the last fight let us face
> The Internationale unites the human race.
> So comrades, come rally
> And the last fight let us face
> The Internationale unites the human race.
>
> No more deluded by reaction
> On tyrants only we'll make war
> The soldiers too will take strike action
> They'll break ranks and fight no more
> And if those cannibals keep trying
> To sacrifice us to their pride
> They soon shall hear the bullets flying
> We'll shoot the generals on our own side.
>
> No saviour from on high delivers
> No faith have we in prince or peer
> Our own right hand the chains must shiver
> Chains of hatred, greed and fear
> E'er the thieves will out with their booty [give up their
> booty]
> And give to all a happier lot.
> Each [those] at the forge must do their duty
> And we'll strike while the iron is hot.
>
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