Poetry In Revolt- Anarchist and Radical Writings


Rise like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number
Throw off your chains, like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many they are few!
-Percy Shelley
The Mask of Anarchy

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A Sane Revolution

              If you make a revolution, make it for fun,
                Don't make it in ghastly seriousness,
                    Don't do it in deadly earnest,
                            Do it for fun.

                 Don't do it because you hate people,
                   Do it just to spit in their eye.
                      Don't do it for the money,
                  Do it and be damned to the money.

                      Don't do it for equality,
              Do it because we've got too much equality
             And it would be fun to upset the apple-cart
           And see which way the apples would go a-rolling.

                 Don't do it for the working-classes.
                         Do it so that we can
             all of us be little aristocracys on our own
             And kick our heels like jolly escaped asses.

            Don't do it, anyhow, for international Labour.
            Labour is one thing a man has had too much of.
        Let's abolish Labour, let's have done with Labouring!
                         Work can be fun, and
               men can enjoy it; then it's not Labour.
          Let's have it so! Let's make a revolution for fun!

                           - D. H. LAWRENCE


Last updated on July 31 2001