What Has Happened? Comments

...The generals are putting on civvies and looking like bank clerks... What a wonderful poem!

What has happened? The workers have realised they are being exploited They have read their Karl Marx and decided he is right. A revolution has been staged in their name. The Tsar and his cronies have been overthrown. Citizens are calling one another ‘comrade’, Treating one another with dignity and respect As described by Brecht in this poem. .All is set –why don’t the workers now govern? First Lenin, then Stalin procrastinated Saying the workers were not ready to assume power. They must first be educated. In the meantime There will be a ‘dictatorship of the proletariat, ’ Meaning first Lenin, then Stalin will rule. All power corrupts. Stalin has joined the thousands he killed. The workers are still unready. The dictatorship continues.