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This is a very short, one act play by Bertolt Brecht, and it is about prostitution. Brecht basically mocks and satirizes bourgeois hypocrisy in regards to prostitution, i.e., the bourgeoisie are the biggest public critics of prostitution, and use the most moralizing and idiotic arguments against it, while at the same time being the ones who ran/run brothels, and who have always been the main “clients” of prostitution. Of course we, as socialists, feminists, and decent fucking human beings, should be against prostitution, but NEVER should we use the same kind of moralizing (and most often religious bullshit is included) as the hypocritical bourgeoisie, nor should we EVER put ANY of the blame on the working women themselves, who are exploited brutally, and as is mentioned in this play, are often infected with sexually transmitted diseases by the pieces of shit who defile them. Anyway, enjoy the play comrades:

Liberation:

I never had the privilege of being aware of the world when Tupac was alive, seeing as how his first album was released when I was two years old and he was killed when I was six. Yet despite this, he is the first person I can ever remember listening to as a small child. And I have been listening to him for my entire life since. And in that time I have never heard another rapper, another rhyming poet who could come close to his mastery of language, twisting and turning it around on his tongue, and who exposed the world to me as it is. I can honestly credit Tupac with my first moves toward socialism, and to say anything less is a lie. Now we have the privilege to live in a time where Tupac's spirit has been resurrected in the form of Felipe Coronel, Immortal Tech. Now this may sound dramatic, but for this to be so you would need to underestimate the power of language and misunderstand what a rapper is.

This is another short satirical sketch by hilarious Czech (anarchist and later bolshevik) writer Jaroslav Hasek. This sketch mocks bourgeois moral crusading, bourgeois religious conservatism, and generally the hypocrisy of the rotten bourgeois. It mainly focuses on a topic I have spoken about before: prostitution. It is interesting to note that while the hypocritical bourgeois in this story are continually condemning "fornication" and seek to fight prostitution by invoking religion, yet they are incapable or unwilling to step down from their undeserved pedestal in society to see that females become prostitutes out of economic necessity, and that to fight for a society in which a woman does not have to sell her flesh to survive we have to eliminate poverty and class.