WEIL BROTHERS Comments

One of the ‘big four' exporting companies
set up in Argentina at the end of the 1800s
ecstasy of international division of production


That's to say: rapid expansion of the local farming area
sowing seed by hand maize and Barletta wheat
in the air one hand from the millions that arrived


from the Italian or Iberian Peninsula with ancient memories
of the fertile rhythms of Ceres and the Lupercalian feasts
completely useless for this soil, with no rocks and almost


no limits, to rent badly and pay with a potential
harvest in the face of hail and once again locusts
or the labourers and hobos of all sorts for reaping


the use of the harvester if they invested in capital grain
more grain grain threshing and a long spell at the station
after the obligatory bagging stacked high in the cart


and the loss of one or more zeros given the ignorance
of the sudden positive or negative movements
of the prices on a board on the other side of the world


cablegrams from London or Rotterdam or Antwerp
to pass on information to the local agents of,
well, e.g., this company whose income for years


funded the research work of the Frankfurt School
dedicated to elegantly superseding the orthodox
economicist and mechanistic view of base-superstructure
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