हमें अपने लोगों के बीच होना है।

ये समय है कि
वातानुकूलित परिवेश-अनुकूलित
गंजी-तुंदियल या छैल-छबीली वाम विद्वताओं से
अलग करें हम अपने आप को,
संस्‍कृति के सेानागाछी दलालाें के साथ
मण्‍डी हाउस या इण्डियन इण्‍टरनेशनल सेण्‍टर में काफ़ी पीने का लम्‍पट-बीमार मोह त्‍यागें,
हमें
निश्‍चय ही,
निश्‍चय ही,
निश्‍चय ही,
अपने लोगों के बीच होना है।
हमें उनके साथ एक यात्रा करनी है
प्रतिरक्षा से दुर्द्धर्ष प्रतिरोध तक।
इस फ़ौरी काम के बाद भी
हमें  सजग रहना होगा।
ये हमलावर लौटेंगे बार-बार आगे भी, क्‍योंकि
विनाश और मृत्‍यु के ये उन्‍मादी दूत,
पीले बीमार चेहरों की भीड़ लिए अपने पीछे
चमकते चेहरे वाले ये लोग ही हैं
इस तंत्र की आखिरी सुरक्षा पंक्ति।
-कात्‍यायनी
(आह मेरे लोगो! ओ मेरे लोगो!)

Accumulate! Accumulate!!

‘Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets … Accumulation for accumulation’s sake, production for production’s sake’

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
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 'Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.'
 -Marx

I never knew I loved the cosmos

I just remembered the stars
I love them too
whether I'm floored watching them from below
or whether I'm flying at their side

I have some questions for the cosmonauts
were the stars much bigger
did they look like huge jewels on black velvet
or apricots on orange
did you feel proud to get closer to the stars
I saw color photos of the cosmos in Ogonek magazine now don't
be upset comrades but nonfigurative shall we say or abstract
well some of them looked just like such paintings which is to
say they were terribly figurative and concrete
my heart was in my mouth looking at them
they are our endless desire to grasp things
seeing them I could even think of death and not feel at all sad
I never knew I loved the cosmos...

Things I didn't know I loved

Nazim Hikmet