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Bertolt Brecht — Part 1
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eI¢ I want to wear whole shoes,
¥ unfortuntely I walk boside my shoes,
have to chase out those who give me no shoes
re put the whole lcather market in order.
as : +
Ry trousers are torn. If I wish to get helf way through the winter,
Iwill need trousers—
Therefore I will have to know where the trovsers are
And will have to control all spinning millss
SIf I wish to eat good bread,
- I will have to break up the corn exchange
And discuss the matter directly with the farmers,
And send tractors into the fields.
= must produce grain on a wLolescle scale.
"tf I do not wish to soldier for the wars of those whe oppress re,
I will hare to laugh st all of their speeches
And unfurl my flag—it is rei—
And will have to declzre my war on theme"
12th stanza of “Cantata to the Day of Lenin's Death*, found *:.
is enehrined in the great heert of the working class;
He was our teacher.
Be fought with ts.
“ Be 4s enshrined in the great heart of the working class."
’ sPifficulty of Governing", found on Page 63.
_., {Stanze I)
‘ It is just es difficxlt, according to what they tell us, to rane-:¢
_ factory. Without the owner the walls would fall in and the machines
would rust, they say. Even if s plow were manufactured somemiiers,
| Wouldn't find its way to the fidd without the sly words which the roncer
_, Writes to the farmers. Who else could tell them that there were p>
-" to be had? And what would become with a farm without an omer? (=:
Would certeinly sew rye where potatoes have already been planta.
"Or could it be that governing is so difficult only beceuse exp 1s2tzt1o:
; and deception must be learned.
®0n the Desicration tHdgrant'®, found on Page 81.
ts: I always found this name which is civen us wrong. Be-
Ipe it means one who leaves Ms country behind. But we didn'$ emig-ct:
we, of our own free will, chosing another country. Neither did we
prate into a country to remain there, who could have thought it,
Instead, we fled. We were driver out, bamed. The cow:+r
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