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. the type of l"ibera,l. intellectual uhich fo"Ds the main prop ofthe rerisionigt parties, cannot accept. ft does not ley erqphaslson the strength, the creatiwlty, the resou:fce and rmbourdedresj.Lience and reserves of the working nasses who have the powerto rise and destroy this ultimate proaluct of manrs class,dividedpre-history, and in this respeot nay be consirlered a pessimisticpoellr T have nevertheless felt that, in an age when renega{attsocialistsrr seek to covex up the true face of capitaJ.ism,representing its ruling monopolist oLi8archy as t'striying fo!peacetr, rr&ore reasonablerr, "interested in the preservation of&ankindrr, etc. etc., the true face of brutality revealed. to tensof mlIlions of struggling peoples in all the eontinents of thqworld shouLd fiad expression i,n iroage s striv.ing to po"trpy theessence of capitali. sm-imperial ism, and lhereby helping to educateall those temporarily taken in by tho illusion of rglativg clpsspeace to a true stance of proletarian internationaL isn. For soLong as expL oitation, oppression and war should continue in anycornar- of the gIobe, j.t is necessary to strip away the falsemask which the objectlve alLies of imperialiim give it, to makeit s tadd exposed in aLL its diseassd vlolence and inhumanity, sothat working people the rnrorl d. over may unite the quioker ln thetitanlc struggl e tc topple the rcolussus with feei of c1ayr, and toush€T in the era of socialism and communism, This aim, in myviewr l{azim Hiknet fulfils in a pouerful and. convincing way inthis poem.

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