Like the Bourgeois
Sickness of Communism
Roberto Arlt
Our bourgeoisies are sick from communism.
Slowly. But the vaccine takes over. A phenomenon that must be of interest to
you. It is clear time has changed, the rents have fallen, and the financial
burdens have increased. The bourgeois family is almost always a family with two or three girls who went to the movies. In the film, they learned
how to keep losing their virginity. But overall, from the art of giving kisses
in different styles these girls unwittingly learn other things. And one day throws
the slippers [kick the bucket? Cuban slang?] exclaiming: ‘We are fed up with prejudices!’ And began
her life. A life perfectly individualistic. When a slave is freed from his
chains he immediately turns to individualism. Anarchism. Believes doing
what he wants to be happy. And when tired of doing what was craved begins to examine the reality that surrounds it. To say: “Why this?" "Why
that?"As a citizen or a slut asking half dozen times these questions, the
Communist vaccine begins to catch on. From the disgust with the present form of
capitalist civilization. As if apart from this form of civilization there is
nothing more perfect than the Communist, fatally looks towards Russia. They
turned so Russian that I noted down here a confession of the secondhand bookseller: The best-selling books are those that deal with Russia.
From Cronicas Periodisticas, p. 40 (El Aleph, 1999)
Translated by Justin Loke
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