sun., 31 aug., 2014, countdown to a very european labor day, iv.: give us This Day our Daily Curse

FRENCH: “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité”  ‡

FRENCH: “T. F. P.  /  Travail, Famille, Patrie”  ‡‡

FRENCH: “T. F. P.  /  Travaux forcés à perpetuité” ‡‡‡

GERMAN: “Arbeit macht frei.”  ‡‡‡‡

SPANISH:  “La unica iglesia que ilumina es la que arde.”  ‡‡‡‡‡

     ‡)   “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”  —  French Nat’l motto, dating fr. the French Revolution ;  

   ‡‡)   “Work, Family, Fatherland”  —  Nat’l motto of the Vichy Regime, the puppet govt. of the Nazi occupation ;

 ‡‡‡)   “Forced labor in perpetuity”  —  i.e. & e.g., “life sentence without parole,” fr. the French penal code ;

‡‡‡‡)   “Work shall make you free.”  —  inscribed above the gates of Nazi death camps,  most infamously,  those of Auschwitz ; 

‡‡‡‡‡)   “The only church that illuminates is a burning church.”  —  attributed to Piotr Kropotkin, but quoted by Durruti during the Spanish Civil War.  

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