except in a book on statistics.
For if he had, even he could have seen
his conclusions were unscientific.
Workers and peasants, concerned with the present —
food, sex — care not a jot about economics.
Unlike bourgeoise, they've no time to waste
on historical arcs or other colonics.
They cannot conceive of an interest in common
with anyone living anywhere foreign;
who ooh and aah in barbarian ways;
who could not be their comrades —
AND CERTAINLY AREN'T!;
who have different names;
who dress in ways strange;
who eat and drink God only knows what;
who, if your sister decided to marry one,
both bride and groom would find themselves shot.
Had he looked to THE CHURCH,
he'd have learned from that search
that despite pretenses transnational,
CHURCHES remained, local and rational.
But Master Marx lived in the library.
Save when he knocked up the maid.
So we have to ask was his Socialist mask
deployed to shirk work and get laid?
