Nikolai Mikhailovich Kochergin
(Born Moscow, 1897; died Leningrad, 1974)

Capital and Co., 1920

Offset lithograph
503 x 320 mm
Top:
Russian Socialist Federation of Soviet Republics

In image, in gold:
Capital and Co.

In image, labels of people:
First three figures:
Clemenceau, Wilson, Lloyd George

Second group of figures:
Mikado, Polish gentry, Makhno, Petliura, Kolchak, Denikin, Iudenich, Rodzianko, Finnish Sejm

Bottom row of figures:
rabbi, Roman Catholic priest, Mullah, trader, kulak, Pope, Industrialist, informant, cadet, pogromist, underground anarchist, diplomat, landowner

Below image:
Here are Capital and Company—
Variously-named jerks
are these—the bourgeois "icon,"
Here are all the pillars of their "law."
And who all serve as their props.
A gang of villians, from which
The people have torn off their chains—
Fighting for three years already.

However Capital might boast,
His crown will soon be shattered:
From the corpse, overflowing with fat,
The purple mantle will be torn off.
With a swing of the proletarian hammer—
Down will fall the citadel of gold,
Burying underneath itself
An "international robbery."

Down will fall all multifaced evil.
Brothers, stand for this great deed,
Do not let your spirits fall.
Build our new life to be
Free, bright, peaceful.
Build a global commune,
An intimate labor union
For all the poverty in the world!

-Demian Bednii

No. 63
Ne boltai! Collection, Obj: 203918