THE BOOK OF
RUSSKIES
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF THE MOTHERLAND
Tchaikovsky invents musicThe Russkies give Marxism a try
Chapter 15
A long time before World War I, there had been a great thinker named Marx,
2nWho got the idea that capitalism was no good,
3And should be replaced by something called oMarxism,
4Which involved putting the workers in charge of everything,
5So that everything could be done by the greatest number to those of greatest ability,
6From each according to his needs,
7To each according to his goods,
8aOr something like that.
9The Russkies thought about what Marx had said for about fifty years or so,
10Which was pretty quickly by their standards,
11And when things didn’t go just exactly right in bWorld War I,
12They decided to give Marxism a try.
13What happened was that millions of peasants were starving,
14As usual,
15And millions more were dying in the snow against the German army,
16And a crazy cmonk named dRasputin was making the czar spend the whole gross national product on eFabergé potatoes,
17Which took a whole year to produce a crop of one,
18Which wasn’t edible anyway,
19And so the peasants decided they were fed up.
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