Marseillaise: World Anthem

The world needs song. Just as the world need hope, it then needs to sing that hope, and man is a fighter, or is not. The world found that song of hope and pride, naturally enough in the powerful song that was sung to call for the defeat of those who hate humanity. La Marseillaise. The Marseillaise resonated around the world, from Wembley stadium, London, to the New York Philharmonic, to Australia, Russia…

La Marseillaise was used as a republican revolutionary anthem by those who knew French starting in the 18th century, simultaneously with its adoption in France. Such was the case in particular in Russia, where the tradition to use the Marseillaise as an anthem went on under the USSR (alongside The Internationale, another French revolutionary song with deep and famous words, this one from 1864).

In 1792 the First Republic defeated Europe’s plutocrats. Those, in giant coalition, had threatened the entire population of Paris with “military execution“. (Or read directly the demonic statement, a preliminary declaration that Auschwitz was something Prussians found natural to do, was removed from the link, instead Wikipedia just allude to it.) “Military Execution for Paris: these were the words used in July 1792 by the Duke of Brunswick, the coalition’ military commander. Great Britain, Austria, Prussia and Russia were part of the coalition to extinguish the First Republic.

Liberty, Wearing the Phrygian Cap, Guiding The People Against Tyranny

At Valmy, September 21, 1792, just east of Paris, superior French artillery withered the Prussian army which had to ignominiously retreat. The Republic was saved from ravenous plutocracy. At least for a while (plutocracy lite would come back perfidiously with the dictator Napoleon, a Corsican noble who succeeded to highjack the Revolution, for a while, serving instead his own demonic aspirations and those of the French oligarchy).

Every country has an anthem. Even the spineless European Union has Ludwig Van’s magnificent Hymn to Joy (within his 9th Symphony).

But what of the world? Is the world a country? Some will say the world is not a country. How irrelevant. Humanity is defined by hope and imagination, not just reality.

This week the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a French-drafted resolution which urges UN members to “redouble” action against Islamic State, and “take all necessary measures” in the fight against IS.

This is excellent: it’s the world government in action. In decisive action. Because the United Nation Security Council is the world government.

Humanity is both crew and passenger on this very large spaceship, planet Earth. Massive war is not an option on this ship. Several life support systems of the planet are already on the verge of collapse. It is not just about greenhouse gases. Earth’s life support is threatened by multiple organ failure.

I am right now on Maui. Locals told me up to 30,000 Humpback whales show up usually, now. Many come very close to shore. This year, there are none. One can, of course, accuse the super-powerful El Nino we presently enjoy. However, El Nino is how the planet warms up; in case of strong warming, El Ninos become continuous. There was a sort of half-baked El Nino last year, indeed (El Nino is supposed to come every seven years or so).

So we really cannot afford a big war. Nor do we see why we should have one: the largest states on Earth control immense territories: Russia is ridiculously big, 70% larger in land mass than Canada, the USA and China. China itself is immense and does not need the South China sea, to show it is an imperial power, considering its vast imperial colonies in Tibet and Xinjiang.

The European Union, thanks to France’s, and Britain’s immense Exclusive Economic Zones, controls even more territory than Russia (France and the USA have the largest EEZs). And now Russia and France are military allies (as in the latter stages of World War Two). Putin has calmed down, now that the frailty of his, and Russia’s posture, had become blatant.

What we need is to sing together. The words of the Marseillaise sing against what ails us now: the demonic instincts of those who want to reduce humanity to a soil they can trample on. In recent decades, as part of the decline of civilization envenomated by plutocratic ideology, the Marseillaise came to be viewed as too bloody. However, bloody calls to arms against bloodsuckers are perfectly appropriate… And always wise. Third rate philosophers teaching in the most prestigious universities, armed with soporific discourses, and indeed universally adulated, have spoken of chicken and rats, telling us they deserve equal rights with us (for example Peter Singer, Princeton University). While young people were obsessed by such preoccupations, the satanic instincts of naturally forming oligarchies went on a rampage, all over. The Marseillaise puts the mood back where it should always have been: if you are not interested in fighting tyrants, they are very interested in subjugating you. Or submitting (Islam). Here is the beginning of the Marseillaise:b

Rise children of the fatherland,
The day of glory has arrived!
Against us tyranny’s
Bloody standard went up, (bis)
Do you hear in the countryside
Bellow these ferocious soldiers?
They come up within your arms
Slit the throats of your sons, your spouses!

To arms, citizens,

Form your battalions,
March, march!
Let it be that an impure blood
Soak our furrows! (repeat)

What wants this herd of slaves,
Of traitors, of conspiring kings?
For whom these repugnant bounds,
Those irons since long prepared? (repeat)
Frenchmen, for us, ah, what an outrage
What passions it must arouse!
It’s us that one dare contemplate
To return to antique slavery!
To arms, citizens

What! Aliens cohorts
Would legislate in our hearths!
What! These mercenary phalanxes
Would strike down our proud warriors! (repeat)
Great God! From chained hands
Our brows would yield under the yoke
Vile despots would become
The masters of our destinies!

To arms, citizens…
  
Tremble, tyrants and you perfidious ones
The shame of all parties,
Tremble! Your parricidal schemes
Will finally receive their reward! (repeat)
Everyone is a soldier to combat you
If they fall, our young heroes,
Earth will produce new ones,
All is ready to fight against you!

All is ready to fight you, including, but not limited to, the planet itself. To make the Marseillaise truly universal: one has to replace “Frenchmen” by “Humans”, in just one place. There is more to the Marseillaise, including an acerbic critique of Republican Rome, which asserts that Rome was more interested to conquer land rather than minds. Thus we will have to come back to the subject.

The Declaration of the Rights of Humanity and the Citizen of 1789 is the basis of the United Nations, and the only scheme to manage humanity, besides holocausts. So let’s rather sing appropriately, all together, that we have to fight tyrants and their servants, lest we want just to be carpets, and thus kill humanity and the biosphere, because, ladies and gentlemen, however serviceable carpets are, they don’t think much. And without sinking, we will all sink. Including those who confuse Satan and the Good Lord..

Patrice Ayme’

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