House of Paine

the third 16th century

“whose first sixteenth century 
is this 
since it's at least 
the world's   third sixteenth century ”
          commander dante NPA

    that's 
not so cryptic as it may seem 





 here’s a little something 

 Moses sent to Aaron 

the commander 
  may be referencing 


“ we cannot deny that  bourgeois society 
has experienced its second sixteenth century 

a sixteenth century which i hope
 will knell it to its grave 
as much as the first  pushed it into life 

   the special task 
of bourgeois society is

 the restoration of 

the world market 
 at least in outline 
and 
 a production system 
that rests on the world market 
 

 since the world is round 
this restoration 
seems now complete 

with the colonization of

 california and australia 
 
and 

the opening of

 china and japan 

the difficult question for us is this:


   on the european continent
 the revolution 
is imminent 
and
 will also immediately
  take on a socialist character .

 will it then not be 
crushed of necessity 
in this small  corner 

while on the much larger terrain
the movement  of  bourgeois society

is still in the ascendant ”   
        october 1858


  and it was crushed 
  and more then once too 

until the great war 
tore a hole
 in everything 
  in europe 
   and an uncrushable 
prole/pleb state emerged
 and survived 70 years
 of external  battering 
and self destruction