Saturday 12th of July 2025

it's a rich man's world......

THE DEVIL OF MONEY

We see people of adventure 

who hunt this curse

To lock it in their purse 

each judges one’s misfortune

that to make awful times better 

one would have to stop the blither.

 

All of you who criticise the spirit of this image, 

have you never paid money any homage? 

These warriors, these scholars, these learned doctors,

These bourgeois, these merchants, this singer,

These soldiers, these workers, these galley rowers, 

In short all of them, I feel much anger.

 

A whore monkey will become chaste and beautiful 

if the devil fills her bowl with money in full 

so money is needed, I am convinced of it.

 

Everyone wants to have it, even if it’s just one crown, 

Well, buy it for five shillings, to you I'll give it 

So you get it all, not bothering a single clown.

 

TRANSLATION/ADAPTATION BY JULES LETAMBOUR

 

LE DIABLE D’ARGENT (early 1700)

L’on voit des gens de tous métiers
Qui chassent après ce gibier.
Pour l’enfermer dans sa bourse
Chacun juge à son malheur
Que pour rendre le temps meilleur
Il faudrait arrêter sa course.

Vous tous qui critiquez l’esprit de cette image
N’avez-vous jamais à l’argent rendu hommage.
Ces guerriers, ces savants, ces doctes médecins,

Ces bourgeois, ces marchands, ces pauvres musiciens,
Ces soldats, ces ouvriers, ces forçats de galère,
Enfin tous je crains de mettre en colère.

Une putain guenon deviendra chaste et belle
Si le diable d’argent lui remplit son écuelle
Il faut donc de l’argent j’en suis convaincu.

Chacun en veut avoir n’en eut-il qu’un écu
Eh bien achetez-le pour cinq sols je le donne
Vous l’auriez tout entier sans fatiguer personne. 

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

das kapital....

I DON'T CARE

 

The State of Indifference is a good place to live

When you sit and take note of your life,

You can add up the good and the great happy times

And discard all the troubles and strife

The people you thought would always be there

Can be placed in a box called “Past Days”;

 

For they seem to have vanished or just do not care,

All involved with their own busy ways. 

So now If I think of them, I don't even pause,

The thoughts all flee in a flash.

The one consolation forefront in my mind, 

When I die they won't get any cash!!

 

K Cooper. Morisset

The SENIOR, 29 July 2019

 

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https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Aanval-op-de-geldduivel--47b3250e9589c1a96a7edf6fb09a7528

 

https://www.staatenlos.info/was-ist-der-kapitalismus

The reality of human existence for thousands of years!

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.