Michael Coy Poet Sonnet

Marxism For Dummies 10

There’s nothing lacking in the thing itself.
In some ways, it’s the very best of us.
It’s not like Marx was some egregious elf,
or Rosa Luxemburg some succubus.

The deal is, if you subjugate the masses,
they might not like it.  Corner them, and they
will fan out fiercely, as do poison gases,
and pimps and prelates will be swept away.

So simple, so methodical.  So why
did communism curdle and collapse?
One short, scant century it took to die:
a flimsy, flawed philosophy, perhaps?

We messed up, through our immaturity,
the grandeur of that peerless theory.

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Darren White March 18, 2017 at 11:52 PM (What did you think: he's lagging behind, let's swamp him?) Communism is not a flawed philosophy, unless you deem all philosophies flawed. Right? It's what you DO with it, always human work (or abuse) Michael Coy March 19, 2017 at 4:17 AM Yes, I thought, let's give him some work to do! LOL And as you always do, you've hit the bullseye. It's what you do with it.