La Cecilia Page #3

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The comrade is right...

it's a serious issue!

Someone's done harm to the collective.

We've got to know who.

It was me that made that fence!

Well, then we'll judge whether...

Judge? Judge what?

What judge? Are we in some damned courtroom?

You're just another cop!

the error of the anarchists

that are hostile towards organization,

is that they believe that all

organization signifies authority,

and they renounce

all organization,

so as not to undergo any authority!

We're not impressed!

It's a quote from Malatesta !

You're breaking our balls with

your irresponsibility!

Comrade! We're with you!

We farmers know that organizing

is necessary!

Organization ?

Property!

Here comes the speech!

don't interrupt it!

Working people of the world,

on this 1st of May,

we salute you fraternally.

Long live the day when the streets

belong to the people,

and the bourgeois run and hide!

Dirty rats!

We celebrate the majestic

power of the people.

We're at a radicals'

banquet here, now, huh!

And what do you

make of Malatesta's words?

Anarchists, revolutionaries,

We do not want just some one

day of a peaceful workers' strike,

we want the longest and most

aggressive strike possible!"

Milan, Genoa,

I see your streets red and black!

Comrades!

We're with you!

To Anarchy!

Listen!

A procession of Poles!

silence, you cockroaches!

Come, sweet May,

The people await you

free hearts salute you!

Sweet Easter of the working folk

Come and shine out in the

great glory of the sun!

my dear Enzo,

since you're the youngest

we're going to baptize you!

the news! the news!

the Emperor's been deposed !

the Republic has come!

Let's drink to the tyrant's fall!

let's drink to it, then, even if

we owe it to him that we have la Cecilia!

Well, Republic's better than Empire!

The new authorities...

the federal authorities of Brazil

want a word with us.

the've invited those in charge

of La Cecilia to come see them.

we'll need delegates...

Naw, let's all go down there together !

A letter from Rossi !

Listen!

He says that the conferences

were somewhat successful,

and allowed him to recruit

other comrades,

and he says our families are ready

to come over and join us!

Love ties natural affections together

and requires no conjugal rituals or bonds

we want to keep our love out of reach

of those vile marketplaces.

and they treat us like we were criminals!

Hurry and rise,

shining sun of the future

we want to live free

we wish no more to serve!

Laws, small minded and dangerous,

the instruments of all fraud,

Only obey the desires

of the rich and powerful;

They only give a little bread

to the workers,

but give the exploiters all honors.

and once more they confirm

that we're the criminals!

I am fully convinced

that the family is the greatest

source of immorality,

meanness, stupidity,

that if I were given a choice

of what to destroy,

among the great pests:

religion, or locusts,

property or cholera,

war or mosquitoes,

the regime or hailstorms,

the fatherland or malaria,

i wouldn't hesitate to destroy

the family.

if the family were put under the control

of society as a whole,

or, as has been said,

if it were put in a glass house,

that would perhaps slightly attenuate

its ferocity,

its villainy, its corruption.

Charlatans of morality,

impostors of religion,

liars of art,

cretins of school,

all those bastards that have

made man's character so brutish,

have all masked the nauseous

reality of the family

under the poetic, noble,

saintly abstraction...

of the family.

today, the family is

the primary reason for the existence of

and the primary support of capitalism,

and so it is incompatible

with socialism.

logic forces you to take ...

communism all the way :

and either to abolish the family

in the same fell swoop

that will abolish property ;

or to admit and respect both."

So let's liberate ourselves from them!

What do you know about the family?

I have a father, a mother,

brothers, sisters.

Sure, who doesn't have a family?

if we do not liberate ourselves...

from the family,

it will destroy communism.

solidarity will remain a mere theory,

as long as man sees on the one side

his wife and children,

and humanity on the other.

but the family cannot be destroyed

from outside it,

and it can't be destroyed

by violence either.

reaction and resistance

will be immediate and general;

it is an institution that must

first be destroyed

in the popular consciousness,

and then crumble

by internal self-destruction.

when practice...

-- the open practice of free love --

will have destroyed the lie

of paternity,

the family will be half destroyed.

the harmony of economic relationships

between men and society

will be naturally spontaneous,

when all women will be seen as

possible lovers,

and all children

as possible sons and daughters.

look what I bought!

Olimpia, look!

The've started hiding their shame!

but that one's remained.

Robespierre didn't pass through

this Republic, that's for sure!

the representative of la Cecilia.

That's us! That's us!

lmpossible !

Yes sir, each and every one of us

are representatives of la Cecilia !

Go on, do your job and announce us!

Announce the la Cecilia colony,

in all its full glory!

You invited la Cecilia ?

There it is!

This is against custom!

Hell ! Sorry bout that.

Can I have a seat?

It's against normal custom,

but I'll receive you.

The new Rpublique won't keep

up the old etiquette!

Alright. I'll have to tell you

that the task that has been given me...

Go ahead, Talk! get to the point!

the concession given to mr. Rossi

by the ex-Emperor

Has been revoked by the republic.

If you want to remain on your lands,

you'll have to pay!

the question of the repurchase of the land

is sufficiently serious,

to require a debate

and a vote.

So I ask you to decree the validity

of this assembly,

the decisions of which will have

to be respected by

each one of us.

Out loud!

Whoever is in favor, raise your hands!

Is anyone against?

the motion is approved!

I now move on to read

a proposal

from the office...

the office!

...for us to discuss.

The La Cecilia Colony

is now going to reimburse

the Brazilian government

for the price of the lands it occupies.

the product of the sale of corn

which had been intended to

launch industrial activity,

will be devoted to paying that debt.

So as to deal with the upcoming

payment due dates,

A portion of the la Cecilia colonists

will have to go work at the

State building construction sites.

The office...proposes that...

the comrade farmers,

whose knowledge is necessary

for getting good yield from our crops,

will be relieved of that duty.

Our fatherland is the whole world

Our only law is freedom

And we carry rebellion in our hearts!

I'll work doing road-building

because it's necessary, but not

because some vote requires me to!

Fresh air, healthy life!

It'll be different here,

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