These lies they tell about the ideal state
The rich will never give away their property
of their own free will
And if by force of circumstances
they have to give up just a little
here and there
they do it only because they know
they’ll soon win it back again
The rumor spreads
that the workers can soon expect higher wages
Why
Because this raises production and increases demand
and thereby fills the entrepreneurs’ pockets
Don’t imagine
that you can beat them without using force
Don’t be deceived
when our Revolution has been finally stamped out
and they tell you
things are better now
Even if there’s no poverty to be seen
because the poverty’s been hidden
even if you ever got more wages
and could afford to buy
more of these new and useless goods
which these new industries foist on you
and even if it seems to you
that you never had so much
that is only the slogan of those
who still have much more than you
Don’t be taken in
when they pat you paternally on the shoulder and say
that there’s no inequality worth speaking of
and no more reason
for fighting
Because if you believe them
they will be completely in charge
in their marble homes and granite banks
from which they rob the people of the world
under the pretense of bringing them culture
Watch out
for as soon as it pleases them
they’ll send you out
to protect their gold
in wars
whose weapons rapidly developed
by servile scientists
will become more and more deadly
until they can with a flick of the finger
tear a million of you to pieces.