House of Paine

what snapped it?

two bad bits converged on the kremlin in 69

 one 
mao  was locking  nixon
(though he'd didn't know it yet)
into 
 a  strategic masterpiece
that would put an end
to any real kold war rivalry 

and 
two 
the evidence was unavoidable

the 5 year spasm 
called  the liberman reforms 
had flopped so   totally 
no need trying ever again

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leonid to koko
 
' the plant managers have beaten u 
 Alexi
 
beaten u like a big eared beagle 

  damn u 
u spineless jelly

I should have
 u  shot

and probably
the top  3,000 pointy headed 
  pen pushers under u too


thats why the workers loved stalin

the little hands knew
they   suffered privations 
but 
they also know
 one other  thing
and  they liked it
they knew
 uncle joe 
 killed the  guyz with the ties
like they were 
 barn sparrows 


 aaah but those were other times 

 
 whats the use

like a damn termite colony 

you can spray all u want

if the house is made of wood 
 the  pale blooded
smart ass little
bastards will only 
 come backanyway

and  more and more 


our system is
 made of wood  comrades


  so fuck it 

instead of shooting you fools

i say 


LETS BRAKE OUT THE STOLY  

( a cheer  goes up hip hip huraah
 huraah for red bears 
hurrah for black  eyebrows
hurrah for little  suckers ) 


leonid:

" OH  FREDDIE psst 

COME HERE FREDDIE

 (SPEAKING BEHIND A HAND )

 BRING ME MY LITTLE TOOTSCOVA 
WILL YOU FREDDIE MY BOY

AND AND
THE REST OF THE BOLSHOI  GIRLS 

THE MEN ARE  PROBABLY VERY HORNY

ITS BEEN A HARROWING TWO WEEKS

(SHOUTING WITH A RAISED GLASS)


 COME COMRADES COME
I HAVE 
A HOST


SURE OUR GOOSE IS COOKING

SURE WE GOT NO MORE THEN  10 YEARS 

TILL ITS BURNT BEYOND RECOGNITION 

 AND TO THINK

WE  WHO WON
 THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR
WE  WHO 
SAVED THE WORLD 

 WHAT WAS OUR REWARD ?

WE  WERE FORCED
TO GO 
 TOE TO TOE
 WITH WALL STREET

NO WE NEVER CAME CLOSE TO A WIN 
BUT WE SURE DID GIVE EM 
A FEW GOOD 
  SMOOTZES 
DIDN'T WE BOYS  

 (ROARS OF LAUGHTER)

  OKAY SO  
ITS 
ALL OVER NOW 
            BUT THE DANCING

WELL  THEN SO BE IT 


LETS GET  IT  ON 

(MORE ROARS)

FINALLY 

  COMRADES 
TO HARD BARGAINS
  AND SOFT LANDING

          COMRADES 
                         TO THE SELL OUT

(ROAR ROAR ROAR )  

NOW  
            LETS  
  PARTY 
         LIKE WE'RE ALREADY IN TAHITI    " 


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semi sober p.s.


why 
point two happened

why the plants were un reformable 

is all one needs
 to understand
     
 its the wiring diagram
   that shows just how one answeres the primo question

" which class holds state  power"

             which class has the teeth to get its way 
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rallying the managers to reform ?

why the managers


  why not mobilize the  wagelings

  plant profits could be theirs too

no 
to the party toppers
 
it was all just a big machine anyway

they cranked for goodies

  they wanted more goodies 
not better socialism
    
  

 higher wage rates were 
         an instrumentality
                  no more

  goodies like tanks and caviar and junkets to paris

thats what it was all about

it really was 
  a silly ass joke
those liberman reforms

  the plant  managers 
had nothing to gain by accountability
and everyone knew it

so why the game playing?

pure   paper chases 
nothing could be  easier

      where there's    nothing 
personally to gain
by real measurements

      and plenty to lose

whammo
   DOA
 dead on arrival


            fighting
                    to  save  socialism 
                               from  planner network  strangulation

"why bother"

" look  out for yourself"

all they wanted was a chance 
to  keep
cheating 
 stealing
 and
still ' own ' their positions  

what came to be called 

"cadre stability"

 leonid gave em that

'what the fuck"

while he tried to bluff 
a golden parachute
out of wall street 
for himself and some of his pals 

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the rot was too far by gorby day

 gorby couldn't budge 
these bastards either of course

hell they were so far gone by then that...

"liberman reforms round two?"

what a joke

so 
he tried an end run 
by whiping up
 a petty bourgoise revival bigger then nakitas bigger then dengs

which when it got out of hand
 chose
a paupers ration of the real thing
ie unfettered  capitalism 
over gorbs hodge podge pipe dream  

    in retrospect 

       we see now
     the obvious
         only the wagelings 
              would have been  better off 
                     saving socialism

but they had   not a clue how 


and far far more importantly

since they were a class
 with interests
that if they had the power might find out how

they had 
not only no state power
but not even 
 any   organizations of their own

not even  trojan horses
 like solidarity in poland

nothing 
to grad a hold to
nothing to keep afloat on
as they rode  back 
to free capitalism
back to 
overt  sub alternship 

fuck did they 
 get 
          cut to pieces  

when the party of the proles
after siezing power
and stripping away all their half way class institutions 
 turns class color

shit its like 
being a 4 year old orphan
  living with 
  a molesting uncle

u're glad when he's arrested but now 

what the fuck do u do ?

be thank ful u came out a non monster
grow up 
have kids 
and hope they  
 find away
 to make things square 

 

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