The Marxist-Leninist Song, выловленная на просторах интернета

Sep 09, 2012 21:27

На мотив куплетов генерал-майора из оперетты "Пензанские пираты":

I am the very model of a modern Marxist-Leninist.

I'm anti-war, and anti-God and very anti-feminist;

My thinking's dialectical, my wisdom's undebateable,

When I negate negations they're undoubtedly negatable.

And yet I'm no ascetic - I'm always full of bonhomie

When lecturing to classes on the primitive economy;

And comrades all agree that they have never heard a smarter cuss

Explain the basic reasons for the slave revolt of Spartacus.

Explain the basic reasons,etc.

I'm fierce and unrelenting when I'm extirpating heresies

Yet patient and forgiving to the comrade who his error sees;

In short, as a propagandist, agitator and polemicist

I am the very model of a modern Marxist-Leninist.

(Chorus)

In short, as a propagandist, agitator and polemicist

I am the very model of a modern Marxist-Leninist.

My love of Party history comes very close to mania.

I teem with information on the Bund in Lithuania.

My speech on the Decembrists is replete with fun and pleasantry.

I know the different stages in collectivising peasantry.

With Russian Social-Democrats I'm always glad to clench a fist

(While carefully distinguishing the Bolshevist and Menshevist);

But when I'm confronted with a regular Bukharinite

I get a rise in temperature (both centigrade and fahrenheit).

(Chorus)

He gets a rise in temperature, etc.

I know what Lenin said about the concept of the deity,

And why it's very dangerous to worship spontaneity.

In short, as a propagandist, agitator and polemicist

I am the very model of a modern Marxist-Leninist.

(Chorus)

In short, as a propagandist, agitator and polemicist

I am the very model of a modern Marxist-Leninist.

In fact when I begin to try to fight against bureaucracy

To criticise myself a bit, and practice more democracy,

And bringing Marx's teachings up to date I'm much more wary at,

And when I've done with phrases like "impoverished proletariat";

When I've learned that workers think that nothing can be sillier,

Than "monolithic unity" and biased Russophilia -

Then people will exclaim: "Hurrah! He's not a stupid sap at all!

A better Marxist-Leninist has never studied Capital!"

(Chorus)

A better Marxist-Leninist has never studied Capital!" etc

My policies and theories have an air of unreality

Because I am a victim of the cult of personality

But still, as propagandist, agitator and polemicist

I am the very model of a modern Marxist-Leninist.

(Chorus)

But still, as propagandist, agitator and polemicist

I am the very model of a modern Marxist-Leninist.

g&s

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