"The government has decided to dissolve the people,
and elect another."
-Bertolt Brecht, 'The Solution',1953
Here Brecht is satirising the events of the uprising in Soviet-controlled Hungary, when the mask of spurious democracy slipped for a brief second, and the whole political machinary of the 'Democratic Soviet Socialist Republics' (bogus elections, listed canditates, 98% per cent 'yes' votes and so on) was exposed as the Socialist imposition of tyranny against the genuine wishes of the people.
In this poem Brecht imagines how a regime could cease to rely on all those annoying and fiddly trappings of a faux-democracy, simply by somehow reconstituting the actual subject population into one which is far less able to be an impediment to eternal Socialist dictatorship.
Wow. Awesome!
