Red Front

[Alex Trotter <uburoi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Re Stalinism, here are a few lines from the infamous poem "Red Front"
penned by Louis Aragon in 1931, just before he he gave up Surrealism for
Communism. (He had to go on the lam when it was published):

        Kill the cops
        Comrades
        Kill the cops
        ...the Social-Fascist doctors
        ...will fall at the hands of the rioters who'll put them up
          against the wall
        Fire at Leon Blum
        Fire at Boncour, Frossard, Deat*
        Fire at the erudite bears of Social Democracy
        Fire fire I hear death
        passing pouncing upon Garchery.** Fire, I say.
        ........................................
        The burst of shooting gives the countryside
        An unfamiliar merriment
        Engineers, doctors are being executed


*Socialist deputies
**municipal councilor & Communist deputy who had already left the Party
to form a group of independent Communists



What bloodthirstiness! Doesn't it send shivers down your spine? Louis
Aragon--he started out so promisingly with, e.g., *Paysan de Paris* only
to become a CP hack and red patriot of the Resistance. A later generation
of revolutionaries in 1968 spat on him.

--AT





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