Bourgeoisie Communism
We can all look down into the depths of slavery
to the crippling effects of ownership
that our ancestors allowed to control the world
slaves used and abused, raped and whipped
Yet slavery was not the only abuse of the time's
Cotton factories in England, in Manchester
employed mainly women from only nine years old
to work on the floors of the cotton factory's
Women paid to breath the cotton fibres
lungs devastated with asthma destroyed by fibres
the women died by the time they turned twenty eight
destroyed by the factory owners in their need for wealth
Mary Burn's an illiterate Irish woman
showed Friedrich Engels' the poverty and suffering
of the working class the proletariat of Manchester
England had two and a half thousand cotton factory's
Friedrich Engels was the best friend of Karl Marx
together they wrote the Communist Manifesto
Yet I can not imagine that their dream of communism
was the same a Lenin's or later Stalin's
Marx wanted the proletariat to rise up against the bourgeoisie
which is what happened in Russia
but instead they exchanged the bourgeoisie of money
for the bourgeoisie of power politicians
Politicians that lived in luxury
well the proletarians lived, in lives of famine
Stalin afraid of internal up risings against his control killed millions
keeping peace, with the promise of making a better world
Tomorrow was always going to get better
Tomorrow when we rule world
we will know real communism
the utopia of a loving world
Yet the politicians lived in the bourgeoisie world
living the lap of luxury, dancing, on well feed stomachs
well the working person, carried on being abused
just like they did in the cotton factories of Manchester
all through out history the world has never learned
you don't make a better world by killing people
you don't make utopia by creating famine
you create a better world by making friends
you create a better world by creating employment
you create a better by overcoming poverty
you create a better world by caring about people
the bourgeoisie create, factories, jobs and wages
The proletariat or workers need decent wages
when people have money, can afford to be consumers
factories, shops and restaurants, need customers
its only in creating a balanced economy
That cares for all, your different groups of society
that realises both rich and poor are important
when you build a society that respects all people
then in harmony you create peace
Copyright © Bernard Barclay | Year Posted 2020
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