If phoning: Lenin – Christian Raimo

“Hello, is it the essential?”
“Yes, good morning, who’s talking?”
“Vladimir Ilic Ulyanov, ma mi chiami Lenin”
“Lenin?”
“Yes, the revolutionary”
“But excuse me … you are dead …”
“Would you like… Anyway no, I’m not dead. They hibernated me ninety-eight years ago, and now they defrosted me “
“Cabbage”
“Yes, it’s a nice shock to me too. I lost the whole twentieth century “
“And also the end, the two thousand years”
“Don’t tell me about it … The fall of the Berlin Wall … You’ve done a lot of bullshit, huh”
“Well, the story goes where it wants”
“History goes where the proletarian masses want”
“So, did you want to tell me something specific?”
“Of course, I followed these last administrative ones, and now the ballot. I proposed to make a militant reportage from various places in Italy on the impending revolution “
“An impending revolution?”
“Yes, after the ballots. For Italy it is time for the Soviets “
“But the party that got the most votes is the Brothers of Italy …”
“Tsarists, Kerenskians, liberals, it looks like 1905, eh, but something is moving, have you seen Castelguidone?”
“No”
“We took it, it is a town in Abruzzo, officially nobody won, in reality we have set up a soviet. Lu soviet to Lu Cuastìlle, as I like to say, because socialism must take root in the territory. Now the collectivization will start at the feast of the patron saint San Vito. We take the goods of the procession and give them to the 411 inhabitants according to the ISEE. Without going to the priest. Anti-clericalism must be rethought, don’t you think? “
“I don’t know what to say … But with respect to your proposal, I don’t think it can work for us, we certainly have a progressive editorial line but I think a signature like yours is a bit heavy for our readers …”
“What to do?”
“I don’t know, you should speak to the manager”
“No, I was saying What to do ?, even when I wrote What to do? they told me it was too bold a libretto. Then, without bragging, he had some success … Shall I leave you my contact? “
“If you want, I can have you call back”
“By Tuesday, otherwise I’ll come to the editorial office and the risk knows what it is”
“I have not understood…”
“I spent 98 years in hibernation, but I still know how to use a certain rhetoric … I like your newspaper … Capitalism must be eliminated … and it can work even better … But let’s talk about it live, we also understand better the role of the rural proletariat”
“All right”
“Time has changed”.