& sun., 1 may, 2016: may day! may day!: give us This Day our Daily Curse

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

FRENCH: “Révolution c’est l’ opium des intellectuelles...” §§

GERMAN:   Ostalgia / Ostalgie   §§§

RUSSIAN: Демократия   —   Dermokratiya  §§§§

RUSSIAN:  “промочи флаг героином и я поссосу!” — “Promoči flag geroinom i ya possosu!” §§§§§

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

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

§§)  “Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals...”  —  Popular Post-May ’68 Situationist graffito that sprayed its way across European & US campuses, found its way into Lindsay Anderson’s O LUCKY MAN!  ;

§§§) “Nostalgia  [for former Communist Eastern Bloc & its safety net]” — [formerly Eastern] Germ. pun & neologism; Etym., Germ, Ost = East [as in Cold War Eastern Europe & Soviet Russia] + (die) Nostalgie = nostalgia ; See also “Won’t Get Fooled Again” (Pete Townshend), fr. Who’s Next,  MCA records... [“...Meet the New Boss...same as the Old Boss...” ] ; See also < http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-07-13/art/ostalgia-new-museum-a-walk-around-the-bloc/ >  ;

 §§§§)  “Crapocracy” / “Shitocracy”  — the post-glastnost world Yeltsin & Putin presided over & bequeathed to the Russian peoples ;

§§§§§)  “Soak the flag in heroin & I'll suck on it!” — attrib. to a famous former Commissioner of Sewers  

§§§§§§)  “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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